Word: boringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gunbarrel device, with a bore of not less than two inches or more than ten inches. Purpose: to fire a projectile of fissionable material into a plug of fissionable material at the end of the bore, thus creating a critical mass and atomic blast...
...Boring & Sound. The pale young man with the donnish air was no overnight success. His speeches-meticulously prepared, subtly reasoned, peppered with quiet wit-bored the House. But the ability to bore is rather well regarded in the House of Commons as a sign of soundness. Rab turned from oratory to committee and administrative work to prove his soundness. He was cautious, he was courteous, he never spoke out of turn, he never spoke unless well prepared. His voice was as clear as his logic. "The bullyboys may make the headlines," said a colleague, "but it is to the young...
Notes & Echoes. From the experts at the British Museum, Keen first established that the notations could indeed have been written during Shakespeare's lifetime. Furthermore, they bore some resemblances to the few existing samples of Shakespeare's handwriting. But more important still was their content. It was obvious that the Annotator was collecting material for a project...
...silver buses parked in front of the New York Stock Exchange this week looked like any other passenger buses. But inside, instead of seats, each had three offices filled with desks, radiotelephones, easy chairs, an outlet for a stock market ticker and a board listing 70 stocks. The buses bore the name Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, the world's largest brokerage house (113 offices), and they were the firm's latest idea on how to bring Wall Street to Main Street...
...Washington Post (circ. 201,645) and Washington Times-Herald (253,532) were about as unlike as two metropolitan dailies could be: the Post is internationalist and often New Dealish, although it backed Eisenhower; the Times-Herald was isolationist and archconservative, bore unhappily with Ike. But last week the two papers came to complete agreement on one of the biggest newspaper deals in U.S. history. For $8,500,000 the Post's Board Chairman Eugene Meyer, 78, bought the ailing (estimated $500,000 loss last year) Times-Herald from its ailing publisher, Colonel Robert R. (Chicago Tribune) McCormick...