Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zoologist Hugh B. Cott of Cambridge University in the preface of his plentifully illustrated new book, Adaptive Coloration in Animals (Oxford; $8.50). When it appeared in Britain, Cott was at once snapped up by the British armed forces to make their guns as inconspicuous as woodcocks, their tanks as bush bucks, their planes as pickerel. Sternly scientific, the book is more readable than popular "wonder books" of nature...
...teaching at University of California; Ivor Armstrong Richards (Basic English), of Cambridge University and Harvard; Progressive Educator William Heard Kilpatrick, of Columbia University's Teachers College, and his vigorous wife; dark young Philosophy Professor Max Black, of University of Illinois; stocky young Robert Bauer, an Austrian youth leader; bush-browed Malcolm MacLean, president of Hampton Institute; others of whose practical idealism Leader Schairer felt sure...
...quote the article-"There an engineer told him that the jungle section to the south had a reputation worse than any bush country in Africa; that a dozen explorers had tried, but none had gotten through. ..." I would like to correct part of this engineer's statement...
...Motors' Donaldson Brown, Chrysler's B. E. Hutchinson, Studebaker's Paul G. Hoffman, Willys-Overland's J. W. Frazer, Nash-Kelvinator's George Mason, Hudson's A. E. Barit, International Harvester's W. F. McAfee, Diamond T Motor's E. J. Bush, White's Robert Black, Autocar's Robert P. Page...
...outset-was last week described to U.S. doctors. Instead of immobilizing paralyzed limbs by strapping them to splints, the new treatment calls for patiently flexing a victim's useless limbs while he is still sick in bed. No doctor invented this method, but a nurse in the Australian bush named Sister Elizabeth Kenny...