Word: collections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gone was the midsummer's nightmare in which it had somnambled into the convertibility crisis. Gone was the comatose paralysis of a Government which had collected unprecedented powers, but which could not collect its wits for leadership. The tempo of life and work has quickened. Factory managers reported that their employees were "really getting down to it." Even the Tory party, which since its crushing defeat of 1945 had been the most torpid segment of the British scene, suddenly came sufficiently alive to win an election. Just 24 hours before the votes were counted, a TIME correspondent in London...
Cheerleaders wanted to hold Friday night mass meetings for other games since the Holy Cross fracas, but decided, "because of the failure of the Crusader rally, to collect all College enthusiasm for one night," Spear explained...
...muscularly modest man who sits behind a white-vaulted door in University Hall has a tricky and unromantic job ahead of him. Dean Bender, who claims he is "not the kind of man about whom legends collect," faces the task of filling the shoes of two almost legendary deans, LeBaron Russell Briggs and A. Chester Hanford. With his work three fourths disciplinary and routine, he has to draw in the reins on his positive plans for the College while he carries out a policy that the Faculty has formulated. A narrow thread between Administration and Student, his is probably...
...instrument's chief working parts are a small chamber, a bronze wire (charged by a battery) and a fine, platinum-coated quartz fiber one-thirtieth the thickness of a human hair. When X rays or gamma rays enter the chamber, they leave a trail of ions which collect on the wire, neutralize its charge and move the quartz fiber...
Temperate Water. Dr. Newell went to Peru to collect fossils of shellfish that lived and died in the ancient sea. The shells, embedded in the sedimentary rocks, are an accurate key to the age and origin of the strata. He brought back two tons of specimens, grubbed out of Andean rocks by U.S. and Peruvian assistants...