Word: bugs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alleged to have dubbed the President a "blood-stained assassin" was exposed by Joseph P. Lyford '41, who became a "member" of the organization, and worked himself into it to such an extent that James, in a pamphlet published soon after the expose, called him a "human bug...
...glint of the copper bug-barriers caught the metal-hungry eye of Army men commandeering vital materials for industry, and the screens were melted up. Veterans of past insect wars recommend mosquito-netting canopies for the beds of those who would sleep in peace...
Life Magazine, which first caught the Big Three "bug" with its portrayal of "Life" at Harvard last May, continued its Ivy League habits during the past two weeks in an invasion of Old Eli's cloistered walls. Life's peering cameramen, living up to their "nothing sacred" reputation won in Cambridge last year, when they featured Langdon P. Marvin '41 doing his setting-up exercises, looked into all phases of Eli existence from the individual Yale Man's daily life to the university's part in the War Program...
...back, he tosses off this part of his life as dull and unsatisfying. But it was probably these same years that gave him his big start in getting to know the "higher ups," the power boys in the City, who serve Benny so faithfully to this day. The business bug got him, however, and after selling a profitable business that he had built up, he came to Mt. Auburn Street and established the now-famous dry cleanery. For years he had had a secret hankering to come to Harvard to do some kind of work around the Square. Just...
Fluorescent lighting faces the biggest boom in its four-year existence (estimated sales for 1942: 40 million tubes). Recently the infant industry's 37-year-old James L. Cox, Hygrade Sylvania Corp. engineer, announced the demise of a technical "bug" that has been lurking in the luminescent tubes: the unpredictable "lumen slump" (blackened end-bands, dark streaks and splotches) that afflicts many lamps. Cox's bug killer: a technique for dosing each lamp with the exact amount of mercury needed for adequate ultraviolet radiation...