Word: birches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thrilling, and no more pointed than a jelly omelet. Only an oömancer could tell how it all began, or when-or why. Egg rolling is probably related to an old Central European custom called by the Germans Schmeckostern, or Easter smacks. The men beat the women with birch boughs on Easter Monday and the women beat the men with birch boughs on Easter Tuesday. (But in Durham, England, the men used to take off the women's shoes on Easter Monday and the women took off the men's shoes on Easter Tuesday.) In Bohemia...
Other signers of the letter, besides Edwin C. Kemble, chairman, Pound, treasurer, Ulich, Allport, and Rochow are: Kenneth T. Bainbridge, Francis Birch '24. Percy W. Bridgman '04, Harvey Brooks, Zechariah Chafee, Jr., John T. Edsall '23, William C. Green '11, Arthur N. Holcombe '66, Mark DeWelfe Howard '28, Howard M. Jones, L. Den Lect, Archived MacLeish, Edward M. Purcell, Alfred S. Romer, and J. Curry Street...
...arctic climate (TIME, July 26) may eventually make the barren lands flow with milk and honey. But as the warm temperature moves northward, its shift produces unpleasant as well as pleasant effects. Last week Dr. Rene Pomerleau, of the Canadian government's forest pathology laboratory, warned that birch forests are dying all over northern New England and eastern Canada. After a few seasons of unusually high soil temperatures, the trees die back at the tops. Already, said Pomerleau, much timber has been affected. If the dying trees are not harvested soon, fungi will destroy them...
Cover-Up. Paper-thin. 3/4-in.-wide strips of wood with adhesive backing for finishing off edges of plywood and other woods were introduced by Seattle's Puget Modern, Inc. Called "Wood Tape.'' the wood strips come in fir, mahogany, birch, walnut and oak, are applied by thumb pressure. Price...
WHEN Franklin D. Roosevelt was running for President in 1932, he favored using public power as a "birch rod" to control the rates of private utility companies. After the utility scandals of the early '30s, many citizens thought that the rod was needed. For the next 20 years, the Democrats made the private companies a favorite whipping boy, while the Government moved full speed into the power business. Now President Eisenhower has thrown away the rod and devised a new method to deal with the power problem. His policy: partnership...