Word: buttons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Unlike the standard Geiger counter, which may record radiation by a series of clicks, the pocket model does its recording on a lighted scale. The user just presses a button; if the fiber moves across the scale, he can be pretty sure that he is being bombarded by unhealthy radiation...
...State of New York. One of his 13 children, whose name was Henry, decided to use his inheritance to cultivate his passion for "being" instead of "doing." Wrote he: "I can give ecstatic hours to worship or meditation but moments spent in original deed, such as putting a button upon my coat or cleansing my garden-walk of weeds, weigh very heavily upon my shoulders." Billy's grandson, Novelist Henry James Jr., never regretted that "the rupture with my grandfather's tradition and attitude was complete; we were never in a single case, I think, for two generations...
...talk my way out of this espionage business by telling the Editor that I wear Chipp suits, button-down shirts, and club ties, sport a crew cut, and talk with a broad-A, and anyone who does all those things surely comes from Harvard, and even the people at Dartmouth would spot me a mile...
...fist and make look like a football. The Editor doesn't forget anything. He finds me a tie that leaves me as flat as warm beer, and then insists I put a ruptured duck in the lapel of the suit, and find a shirt that isn't button-down. The hat I wear looks like something out of the Front Page...
...comes, and the photographer who goes with me. I have never seen before, and he doesn't say much as we get into the car that is very dusty and has New York plates. He is wearing a Legion button, I notice...