Word: chews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Poet Fry's new play may rank well below his own high par in the entertainment field, its lines contain plenty of material for concerned Christians to chew on. Sample: Thank God our time is now when wrong Rises to face us everywhere, Never to leave us till we take The longest stride of soul men ever took. Affairs are now soul size. The enterprise Is exploration into God, Where no nation's foot has ever trodden yet. . . . It takes So many thousand years to wake, But will you wake for pity's sake, Pete...
...stories are written in a firm, never brilliant, always individual style. In the sudden bite of his insights, Storyteller Stern somewhat suggests Chekhov, but Chekhov with his back teeth pulled. He bites, but he doesn't chew his ideas as fine as they deserve...
...left to one of RFC's own harried directors to give the committee one solid bit of testimony to chew on. The whole RFC board had been "bad," declared Director William E. Willett and he guessed that he had been just "as bad as the rest...
...accepting the congratulations of U.S. science and industry, the National Bureau of Standards celebrated its 50th birthday last week. Without the bureau's busy, intelligent activities,U.S. nuts would not fit as many bolts so handily; houses would not be as warm; false teeth would not look or chew as well. In thousands of ways, both obvious and obscure, the bureau has increased the technical effectiveness of American living...
...Baltimore, Poet Robert Frost was asked why he liked to write eclogues, said: "Well, I guess I write 'em same as I chew tobacco, because the women...