Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ernest Jr., 30, who entered the University of Chicago at 13, got his bachelor of science degree at 16, a Ph.D. in mathematical physics at 19, worked on the wartime atomic-bomb project, is now an industrial scientist at White Plains...
...Holmes? In the 116 weeks since the first 26-minute 25-second Dragnet film (The Human Bomb) was flashed on the nation's television screens, Jack Webb has made Joe Friday one of the most famous fictional detectives of all time. Sherlock Holmes himself never captured the instantaneous interest of so many millions of people, and in comparison, such latter-day sleuths as Philo...
...begun planning for the big jump to television. NBC, fearful of film, insisted that the show be done live and in New York. Webb refused. Finally, the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. stepped in, pressured the network into agreement. NBC shelled out $38,000 for a pilot film, The Human Bomb, a real-life thriller about a madman who threatened to blow up the Los Angeles city hall to get his brother out of jail...
...over past rites; more beer was sloshed around Memorial Hall than ever before, the freshman football team, dressed for the occasion in white waiter's jackets, managed to rough up a few disorderlies and quite a few more gaping bystanders. When all this fun was over, a prankster's bomb exploded in a freshman's face, critically injuring...
...yearly threat of injury and serious property destruction. It seems, they have said, a good psychological defense against the exuberance that freshmen feel when they find that three C's and a D are not so hard to get after all-that same exuberance which leads to riots and bomb throwing in the Yard. It was an attempt to substitute foam flecked Brotherhood and Good Fellowship for town-gown fights...