Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press was morally guilty on several counts. It was guilty of pride: it had assumed that it knew all the important facts-without sufficiently checking them. It was guilty of laziness and wishful thinking: it had failed to do its own doorbell-ringing and bush-beating; it had delegated its journalist's job to the pollsters...
...Brightness Falls," by Geoffrey Bush '51, makes as good an example as any. It is about the miserable effect as unsuccessful coming-out has on the creature who came out. Mr. Bush has a sense of character and he has a sense of narrative. But he confuses his reader far too often. He doesn't make his setting clear soon enough. He doesn't make his shifts from mood to mood easy enough to follow. And he doesn't quite manage to get across just what was wrong with the party, or with the girl, or with the girl...
...Germany, England, France and the U.S., Abraham Flexner deplored the "wild, uncontrolled and uncritical expansion" in U.S. universities. Newark Merchant Louis Bamberger and his sister Mrs. Felix Fuld gave Flexner $5,000,000 to start a place where a few scholars could just "sit and think." Scientist Vannevar Bush was skeptical: "Well, I can see how you could tell whether they were sitting...
Four hundred faculty members at Massachusetts Institute of Technology were hastily convened to hear the news. President Karl T. Compton, 61, was leaving for a new job after 18 years: he would succeed Vannevar Bush as boss of the nation's military research organization, the Research and Development Board. Faculty members, some with tears in their eyes, rose to salute Compton after he made the announcement. Then Compton introduced his 44-year-old successor, Dr. James R. Killian...
Nine days after their forced landing, the party, packing grouse which Scalise had boiled, decided to try to walk out of the bush. Stirling-Hamilton had a hand compass to keep them on their course, and they headed due south. It was slow going. They bogged down in the soggy muskeg. Farther on, in a tangle of fallen timber, they almost came to a dead stop, made only ten miles in two days...