Word: bulb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nonetheless, against all odds, and even against common sense, Albert forged ahead, shoving with both hands and sometimes with his cheek to get his small bulb out where it could shine. As Cooper observes, "The immortal gift of Albert Woods was his capacity for answering [the question of how to be great] with a glorious hotheaded 'Somehow!' " In short, Author Cooper, himself a physicist hiding under a pseudonym, sets off a merry little stink bomb in the sacred precincts of High Science, as if to show that the laboratory atmosphere is not always filled with the ozone...
Model 1920 or just off the assembly line, it is a spindly Victorian-looking machine with a rubber bulb horn and a wheezy engine. Its thin-spoked front wheels, poking forward like the forelegs of a praying mantis, can-by police stipulation-negotiate a U-turn in a 25-ft. lane. Up front sits the cabbie, exposed on each side to spring's deluge and winter's blasts, separated from his passenger by half an inch of plate glass and half a century of tradition. "Won't do to get too close to the passenger," explained...
Unable to get foreign currency to buy raw materials, factories cut production to 30% of capacity. The big Philips electric-bulb plant at Natanya was dismantled and its equipment shipped back to Holland. The government, which has already forced its citizens to lend it 10% of their currency holdings and bank deposits, last week imposed a new forced loan on property owners. Israel's first devaluation had come when pockets were full and shop windows empty. Now, at the second devaluation, pockets are empty and shopwindows are full-full of tins of canned tomatoes and figs, "frustrated exports" waiting...
Dylan Marlais Thomas, 38, is a chubby, bulb-nosed little Welshman with green eyes, a generally untidy air, and the finest lyrical talent of any poet under 40. When he settles down to guzzle beer, which is most of the time, his incredible yarns tumble over each other in a wild Welsh dithyramb in which truth and fact become hopelessly smothered in boozy invention. He borrows with no thought of returning what is lent, seldom shows up on time, is a trial to his friends and a worry to his family. But let him sit down...
...magazine. For the next several issues, photographs of prizefighters, puppies and horses keep appearing on the magazine cover with increasingly monotonous regularity-but never one of the chorine. Does Debbie ever get to be a cover girl? Does Donald prove that he is no mere flash in the bulb? Do cinemusicals have happy endings...