Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vannevar Bush, boss of all U.S. scientists who worked for the Government in World War II, summarizes the feelings of the layman toward the newest weapons in the world's arsenals. In a book to be published next week-Modern Arms and Free Men (Simon & Schuster; $3.50)- he devotes himself to the job of illuminating some of the dim corners of science's weapon shop...
Like a man thinking out loud, Scientist Bush tries to answer certain questions: What would a third world war be like? Would the U.S. be ready for it? Could the U.S. win it? Could civilization survive the holocaust made possible by the new techniques of war? No one is better qualified to answer such questions than Vannevar Bush, director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and of the project which produced the atom bomb; but in answering them he only half succeeds in removing from them the terror of the half-seen...
...final member of the panel, J. Dougas Bush, professor of English, said that one problem today is that "poets write for other poets" rather than for the public...
Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, J. A. Richards, University Professor, and J. Douglas Bush, professor of English, will discuss the "Poet and Modern Society" at a symposium at 8 p.m. tonight in the Eliot House dining hall...
...government corporation had plenty of excuses. First there were heavy rains, then a severe drought. The bush in the Kongwa district had "proved unduly obstinate"; it took eight hours to clear one acre instead of the estimated two. Kongwa soil hardens until it becomes "like a tennis court." Tractors had been mishandled by native labor. Even African animals turned saboteurs. Wild pigs made a goober feast of one experimental farm, and telephone lines were constantly broken by mild but shortsighted giraffes who got entangled in the wires...