Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suffering man's infinite capacity for self-deception was demonstrated last week, with radioactive trimmings appropriate to the atomic age, in the little Montana mining towns of Boulder (pop. 1,017) and Basin (pop. 250). From far & near came hundreds of bent, gnarled and crippled men & women, mostly victims of some variety of arthritis, all pathetically seeking a magical cure. Many thought they were benefited. Undoubtedly benefited were the owners of two abandoned silver mines, hotel and motel keepers, beanery proprietors and taxi drivers. Boulder and Basin had not seen the like since the bonanza days of the 1890s...
...plaque commemorates. "The Life long Interest in Harvard University and the Observatory of George R. Agassiz 1862-1951. Member and President of the Board of Overseers; President Harvard Alumni Association." It is fixed to a large boulder in a grove of trees by the station's entrance road...
Menzel, now a visitor at the Colorado observatory at Boulder, believes the energy and heat thrown off by the hydrogen atoms could have important effects on both weather and radio reception...
...accuracy of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity may be determined by the Harvard Observatory soon. The Observatory received a wire yesterday from the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado, indicating that positive results may come from photographs taken of Monday's eclipse...
...alter his orthodox notions about the value of a dollar. The orthodoxy led to his memorable Washington feud with White House Favorite Harry Hopkins. Ickes wanted the Depression relief funds spent through his Public Works Administration on big projects that would pay for themselves, like TVA and the Boulder and Grand Coulee dams. Hopkins, the welfare worker, wanted to push out the money in makeshift WPA projects, so most of it would go directly into wages. They both shoveled out billions while they grappled for power, but it was Hopkins who eventually got the upper hand...