Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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University Professor Zechariah Chafee '13, who during the summer was attacked by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) will soon be subjected to another blast because of his work on civil liberties...
...With a blast of newspaper ads last week, Westinghouse Electric Corp. boasted it had "the world's most powerful jet engine qualified for production." The new model of its J40 turbojet, said Westinghouse, produces "more than 25,000 h.p. at flight speeds," will go into the Navy's McDonnell Demon and Douglas Skyray fighters...
...speech, an advance copy reached the Neue Zuercher Zeitung (circ. 70,000), Switzerland's most influential newspaper. Shocked to the core of their neutral souls, the editors alerted the National Day Committee and Zurich's Board of Education. Result: Beck delivered a pallid speech from which his blast at neutrality had carefully been blue-penciled...
Like the original atomic-energy plant at Oak Ridge, the Pike County installation will produce U-235, the radioactive isotope whose fission can produce the energy for an atomic-bomb blast. A major step in the current U.S. program to speed up atomic stockpiling in the light of Soviet possession of the atom bomb, construction of the Pike County plant is expected to take four years, though some units of it will go into operation earlier than that...
Besides the special summer setups, the year-round institutions were also going full blast: 363 students at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, 400 at Manhattan's Juilliard, 1,300 at the University of Wisconsin's School of Music. Crowed Teacher Lotte Lehmann (in Santa Barbara's Music Academy of the West): "What has Salzburg got that we haven...