Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swedish Scientist Berzelius in 1828 named his newly discovered element thorium-after Thor, god of thunder-the choice was perhaps more portentous than Berzelius guessed. Last week in Ottawa, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King told the House of Commons that Canada's huge atomic-energy project at Chalk River, Ont. is exploring the use of thorium as a source of atomic energy. This was the first public hint of large-scale atomic experiments with elements other than uranium...
Whenever long-bearded Leonardo put chalk or quill or silverpoint* to paper, he produced pictures more subtly and precisely finished than most modern "masterpieces." Da Vinci knew how good his drawings were, hoarded the odd scraps carefully. Mostly quick studies of things which interested him, they showed that the giant of the Renaissance was as much scientist as artist...
...good many targets-narrow nationalism, diehards, politicos of both parties, Labor's internal squabbles, power politics and smoke-filled rooms, a lazy electorate. But it has its fun with its upstanding hero too. Grant Matthews has ego as well as earnestness; he wobbles as well as walks chalk. Involved with a lady newspaper publisher, he has to hurry back, as a prospective candidate, to the wife who still loves him. Cleverer and stronger-minded than he is, Mary Matthews, like Maggie Shand in Barrie's What Every Woman Knows, does for her husband what he fancies...
Last week into the sedate Green Room of the White House marched Gussy and Senor Ramos. The room had been fitted out with blackboard and chalk. Mrs. Truman still wanted to learn the language of Good Neighborliness. Among other scholars who will gather at the White House at 11 every Monday morning: Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower, Miss Florence King (daughter of Fleet Admiral Ernest), Mrs. Robert Patterson, Mrs. James F. Byrnes...
Three miles beyond, the DC2 landed. There PerAlemánn learned that the fighter pilot had been killed. Said the Strong Man, chalk-white and shaken: "We have been born a second time." Later he took a train back to Buenos Aires, where imaginative Argentines, with no foundation in fact, were already calling the fallen pursuit pilot a home-grown version of Japan's Kamikaze pilots. One proposal that was bandied about: a monument to the man who had scored a near miss...