Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easy is a bush supposed a bear?" --Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, Scene...
...midst of war, the director of the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development began plumping for a peacetime project. Last week, just before they adjourned, the House and Senate passed a bill to establish a National Science Foundation. To wise Yankee Scientist Vannevar Bush, it was the happy end of a two-year fight (TIME, July...
...fields of science. Specified by the bill were special commissions for research on cancer, poliomyelitis and heart diseases, and a special division of national defense. Suggested (but not appropriated) by the Congress, as an appropriate annual payroll: $23 million-far short of the $122 million sought in Dr. Bush's original plan for the Foundation...
...spider, is no true insect. Ticks and spiders have eight legs; bona fide insects have only six, the legal limit set by science. The tick's extra pair of legs serves him well. When a tick senses an approaching meal, he hangs on to a low bush by his two hind legs and gropes hopefully with the other six. If, animal or man brushes past the bush, the tick grabs on with all eight legs, makes for the skin. Having attached himself, the tick bores in with his hard snout and begins to suck blood...
...Hard Way. Wehran, a Marine pilot in World War I, then a barnstormer and a booking agent for Alaska bush flyers, got acquainted with Teterboro the hard way. He crashed there in 1924. In 1941, when he cast a speculative eye at it, the gone-to-weed field did not look much better to him. But Wehran thought it had possibilities. He scraped up the $100,000 down payment and bought the field for $500,000. Then he persuaded Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) to finance the remainder on a ten-year mortgage and lend him $500,000 more...