Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing that had made irritable Editor Ross blow his top was the discovery that the Digest was no longer a digest, that many of its articles were home-grown in its own commodious nursery at Pleasantville, N.Y. and "planted" in other publications- for eventual transplanting back to the Digest. Said Ross: "This gives us the creeps...
...street had heard, but did not yet believe, that some day a scientist somewhere-perhaps in the U.S. -might press a button that would set up an atomic chain reaction and blow up the world (see SCIENCE). He took the news, as he took all news that did not affect his own immediate, personal wellbeing, in stride. It was too big for headlines, too big for him to comprehend. Anyhow, somebody would see to it that it did not happen...
What is the goal of science? To blow up the world? If scientists mean what they say-and they generally do-scientific progress is within sight of that nihilistic goal, and may soon succeed in reaching it. Last fortnight Professor John Archibald Wheeler, of Princeton University, almost let this monstrous tiger...
...your Maryland farm on Sunday. . . . Fly to Wilkes-Barre . . . Monday. Flying is easier than driving a car. ... It costs less to run a Taylorcraft than to operate an automobile. . . . CAA records prove the safety ... 8 free hours flying instruction (enough to teach you to fly)." To airmen, who blow a gasket over such talk, this seemed the silliest ad of the month. It was not much worse than avia tion ads which have rosily pictured families flying off for weekends. But aviation buffs have learned to take such things well salted. Now, the booming light-plane in dustry is trying...
...Body Blow. The General Motors strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) knocked the wind out of the stock market. In three days, the Dow-Jones industrial averages dropped 5.71 points. G.M. fell 3^ points to 70-3-; Chrysler dropped 5^ to 126^ before the market caught its breath ana steadied...