Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faith in man's ability to supply his needs through science--in spite of the world's depleting natural resources and increasing population--was expressed by a panel manned by Vannevar Bush, president of Carnegie Institution of Washington, Frank W. Notestein, director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton, Fairfield Osborne, president of the Conservation Foundation, Robert P. Russell, director of the International Basic Economy Corporation, and Sir Henry Tizard, British production expert...
...Bush noted that a danger of starvation exists, but said that investigations into the nature of photosynthesis may well make it possible to produce protein and carbohydrates synthetically. Russell asked "alarmists" to "look at vast...lands with rich soils and abundant water" that still remain to be cleared and put into production...
Outside the eastern India hill resort of Ranchi last week 5,000 people, many in loincloths, some decked out in peacock feathers and silver ankle bangles, listened to a dapper, cigar-smoking orator clad in a natty green bush jacket and gabardine trousers. "Adibasis I" he addressed them. "The most ancient aristocracy of India, the original settlers of this country, the most democratic element in the land are everywhere shouting Jai Jarkhand [Victory to Jungle land]." As the crowd heard their fellow tribesman, Oxford-educated Jaipal Singh, 46, mention Jarkhand, the province they wanted carved out for themselves in east...
Smith's new president is Benjamin Fletcher Wright, a bush-browed, pipe-smoking social scientist who looks younger than his 49 years. He was born in Texas, went to Texas public schools (in Austin) and the University of Texas, spent World War I as a private in Texas, and married a Dallas girl. In the early '20s, he took a Harvard Ph.D., later moved north and joined Harvard's faculty as an instructor in government...
...remainder of the candidates staged a slogan war. Bill Bush pleaded, "Throw away that truss. Give your support to Bush." Briodo claimed he was "wanted by the Biddies," and Aldrich and Lauterstein hinted...