Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortunate enough to have been one of the audience at the Rockwell Cage when Dr. Vannevar Bush made the statement you quoted.* I sincerely hope he is right in his optimism, but the slide rule he used for his computations must have slipped quite...
...slightly under two persons per square mile, including deserts and oceans. The total would be less than one-sixth of the actual population of today, and less than one-millionth of the gruesome pile, packed as we were in the Rockwell Cage but 15 layers deep, envisaged by Dr. Bush...
...before. But there is another kind that, like differential calculus and other forms of honest brainwork, has a permanent beauty worth a closer look. Of all living writers, none has done more as a critic to keep this distinction clear or more as a poet to illustrate it than bush-bearded, 42-year-old Englishman William Empson, who now lives by choice in Peiping. For years Empson's work has been admired by people who would put their minds on it, and either ignored or jeered at by a greater number who gave it a fast superficial reading...
...plant, indigenous to the west coast of South America, which resembles a blackthorn bush, grows to a height of eight feet...
...opening gong at 8:30 a.m., a reinforced sales force of 200 (normal: 25) was washed aside by the tide of bargain hunters. The hunters fought their way to the racks and crawled over them like Japanese beetles on a bush. By 11 o'clock, the racks were stripped bare. Filene's rang up an estimated $65,000 in sales and, to boot, had netted an inestimable amount in good-will advertising...