Word: bulletined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year Dudley's Graduate Secretary, Robert Fischelis decided to do what he could to improve the Center's tutorial situation. Three more men were added to the staff and its name was officially changed to the Dudley Boar dof Tutors. A tutors' bulletin board was set up and was soon snowed under by notices...
...Kansas, where the big wind began that carried Dorothy to the Land of Oz, the Wichita Beacon last week had an Oz-like notice on its bulletin board...
...frogs," says the 57-year-old scientist, defiantly twirling his walrus mustache, "I see the entire universe." The more he learns about his frog-shaped universe, the more he worries about the human-shaped conscience. Biologists, says he in the current Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, ask themselves whether they can improve on nature. "Who can fail to see the seriousness of this program . . .? What will happen on the day science will have given us the possibility of determining the sex of our offspring? . . . Was it not much easier to rely on unpredictable chance?" What about "therapy of the spirit...
...fireworks display at a nearby Shinto shrine. The local political boss canvassed the villagers, asked those who wanted to see the fireworks to hand over their admission tickets to the polls, so that Ueno might still have a patriotically large number of ballots cast. In one ward a bulletin was circulated demanding that people who did not intend to vote bring their tickets to the ward leader's house. Some women who voted for the right candidate were allowed to vote five times...
...yearbook for 1952, published this week (Insects, U.S. Government Printing Office; $2.50), the Department of Agriculture carries a gloomy bulletin on the war. "Although the science of entomology has made great progress in the last two decades," reports Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan, "the problems caused by insects seem to be bigger than ever. We have more insect pests, although we have better insecticides to use against them and better ways to fight them." Insect pests have already survived for 250 million years. And for all man's relentless ingenuity, says the yearbook, "no species of insect...