Word: chews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the $513 million Ford Foundation announced that it is going into the magazine business. Starting in October, the foundation will publish Perspectives U.S.A., a quarterly designed to show people outside the U.S. that "Americans can think as well as chew gum." The magazine, a pet project of the foundation's Associate Director Robert Hutchins, will be uncompromisingly highbrow, and will run original articles and reprints on literature, music, theater, history, philosophy, plus American poetry, fiction, and art. There will be no advertising, propaganda or politics. It will be printed abroad, at first in English, French, German...
Dearly Beloved . . . In Gary, Ind., Justice of the Peace Paul Dudak indignantly announced that he would not marry any more couples who chew, drink, hum, whistle, wear greasy clothes or crack improper jokes during the marriage ceremony...
...determination and persistence of its snow is no new phenomenon for Cambridge. A few years ago a couple of Sno-Gos-those goose-necked tractors which effectively chew up snow and squirt it into trucks--briefly appeared in the Square, then disappeared without a trace. In their wake returned the good old snowplows, smearing the snow into well-glazed flat surfaces and impenetrable mounds...
...research at Bell Laboratories, as "sending a twelve-car freight train, locomotive and all, to carry a pound of butter." A transistor gets along with a millionth of a watt, not enough in most cases to make it faintly warm. The Bell men take a bit of blotting paper, chew it for a while, and wrap it moist around a 25? piece. When wires are clipped to this combination, it makes a battery strong enough to work a transistor...
...agricultural organization and 5) inefficient general management. These ailments cannot be cured, he said, by indiscriminately handling out dollars (Spanish officials would like about $300 or $400 million). "Spain will never die of starvation, but she can die of indigestion if we give her more beef than she can chew...