Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn's Postmaster Edward J. Quigley announced that dogs, cats, snakes and rabbits may not be sent through the mail, but that postal authorities will accept alligators (up to 20 inches), bees, turtles, frogs, horned toads, and certain types of worms (provided they are packed in moist moss...
...First Test. At week's end Daniels was in Costa Rica as U.S. representative of the O.A.S.'s four-man investigating commission. Despite his lack of enthusiasm, the new peace machinery seemed certain to pass its first test impressively-so impressively, in fact, that Acting Secretary of State Lovett considered urging the O.A.S. to set up a similar system for consultation among the American republics on concrete measures to support democratic governments before they fall...
Psychotic Calculators. If calculators are like human brains, do they ever go insane? Indeed they do, says Professor Wiener. Certain forms of insanity in the brain are believed to be caused by circulating memories which have got out of hand. Memory impulses (of worry or fear) go round & round, refusing to be suppressed. They invade other neuron circuits and eventually occupy so much nerve tissue that the brain, absorbed in its worry, can think of nothing else...
Super-Animal. The miracle of Dogpatch had become a greater national phenomenon than Lena the Hyena; culturally it had surpassed even Sadie Hawkins day. To New York Herald Tribune Radio Columnist John Crosby, who thought he detected a likeness between the whiskered shmoo and a certain Chicago newspaper publisher, the book was "one of the finest satiric creations since Gulliver's Travels." (No, said Capp modestly, that was overrating Dean Swift.) To Dr. Frederic Wertham, a Manhattan psychiatrist who crusades against comic books, the shmoo offered "a solution of human problems on the same spurious level as Nietzsche...
...Appleton layer reflects certain radio waves around the earth. Sir Edward's experiments proved the possibility of round-the-world broadcasting...