Word: bushing
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...Vannevar Bush, president of the Carnegie Institution and World War II boss of scientific research, assured a Washington audience that if the Reds should start a war in Europe now, U.S. atomic bombs "would destroy Russia. We could do it without question as matters stand today . . . We could destroy not only the key centers from which her armies would be supplied, but also political centers and the communications of her armies on the march." For this reason, the doctor concluded, "no all-out war is in sight for the immediate future unless they or we make some serious error indeed...
Rust has another way of wintering. When the weather begins to get cold in the north, the fungus produces black, cold-proof spores. These spend the winter on straw or stubble. In spring, they germinate, sending out small spores that infect barberry bushes. Up to 70 billion vigorous spores can form on an average barberry bush. Each spore can start a fast-spreading infection in a stand of wheat...
Last December the colonial government sent out mobile vans with lecturers aboard equipped with loudspeakers, movie films, picture books, boogie-woogie records. From Accra, the capital, they beat through the bush for six weeks, covering 22,000 miles and 1,300 settlements. Usually the lecturers were welcomed with calabashes of palm wine, especially when word got around that they could forecast wedding dates for the girls. Here & there villagers greeted them with stones, for a rumor had also got around that the vans were after taxes or conscripts...
Tonight's is the first such broadcast sponsored by the Committee, which is composed of 33 leading educators and professional men. Later on, Vanuevar Bush, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and also a member of the Committee, will speak on "The Atom Bomb and the Defense of the Free World...
When scholarly, bush-haired Harold Walter Stoke took over as president of Louisiana State University in 1947, he came as a man with a mission: he wanted to raise L.S.U.'s academic reputation to the level of the lavish $41 million campus that Huey Long had helped to build. For a while, it seemed as if he might succeed in doing just that (TIME...