Word: bushed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What Steep Rock will ultimately mean to Canada, no one yet can say. Some Canadians have already talked optimistically of "a great metropolis in the bush of Atikokan, where great smelters will belch smoke. . . ." This much is sure: the Dominion, hitherto dependent on the U.S., now has a large iron ore supply of its own. This does not mean Canada will now supply fully the furnaces of its own young but lusty and growing steel industry. But it does mean that Canada will become, for the first time, an iron-ore exporter. And no longer will Canada have to import...
...have enough honor count to warrant its use). With the changes many new players have reached top rank. The three most promising: 29-year-old Peter Leventritt of New York City, made a Life Master in 1943, who won last week's world-championship master pairs; George Rapee, bush-haired son of Radio City Music Hall Conductor Erno Rapee, and a Senior Master, who won the 1944 individual world championship; Pfc. John Crawford of Philadelphia, who, when he was 25, became the youngest Life Master...
...Harvard's Associate Professor (now Commander) Howard H. Aiken, with the assistance of engineers of International Business Machines Corp., which built the machine and presented it to Harvard last week. Its calculating versatility is much greater than that of the even more complicated differential analyzer, developed by Vannevar Bush and associates at M.I.T. (TIME, Nov. 29), which merely solves intricate differential equations...
Britain's Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin said: ". . . We are broke. It is no use beating around the bush; we have spent everything and I am glad we have...
...plagued the funny-looking little man unmercifully, "scrounging" (i.e., swiping) his blankets and water, knocking off his helmet to reveal the wad of toilet paper always kept there, ridiculing his passion for orderliness and his perpetual puttering, pouncing on him in howling droves when he modestly retired behind a bush to relieve himself. Then the letters from home began to arrive, mentioning the Pyle column or enclosing clippings of it. Slowly it dawned on the G.I.s that they had acquired a champion, a man who really understood and cared what they-not as regiments or armies but as individual...