Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago Tribune's Robert Rutherford ("Col. M'Cosmic") McCormick opened a new fighting front last week. The Colonel's Chicago Tribune turned on the New York Herald Tribune, which had printed a roundup of the pre-Pearl Harbor opinions-since proved laughable-of "appeasolationists." Said the Tribune...
...they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages. . . . It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. . . . Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time...
...skirmish between Chicago's morning colonel, Bertie McCormick of the Tribune, and Chicago's evening colonel, Frank Knox of the News, was opened by a new series of cartoons, The Adventures of Colonel M'Cosmic. The one shown above brought a grin to the lips of Chicagoans who have lately heard on WGN a lot of Colonel McCormick's omniscient broadcasts on military strategy...
...billions of years than the calculated age of the universe-were it not that gravitation and the pressure of light whirl the dust in cur rents and thus speed up its condensation so immeasurably that Whipple "expects to witness the birth of highly luminous and massive super-giant stars." Cosmic radio signals, which physicists have traced to the Milky Way, can also be explained by these dust currents, Whippie thinks. As the electrified particles whirl about, they are capable of generating the mighty eleven-meter "static" waves which sometimes interfere with earthly communication...
...Since cosmic rays and the earth's slight natural radioactivity have identical ionizing effects, some biologists believe them to cause the small number of mutations which normally occur in all plants and animals and whose occasional increased fitness-for-survival is one of the mainsprings of evolution...