Word: crackpot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engaged in 1940 would be required; and for a 77% increase in 1942, 6,047,200 more (80% over 1940). The 1942 increase amounts to more than one-sixth of all nonagricultural, non-military employment in 1940. For Mr. Dunn such increases come under the heading of crackpot. The expansionists reply that a way must be found to expand and produce at the same time, even if it means much tougher consumer rationing...
Fact No. 1. The main fact was simple enough. Rudolf Hess, only two places removed from the leadership of Germany, had quit Germany under his own steam and gone to the enemy country, where he was imprisoned. In all the howling vortex of dope-stories, nut-stories, crackpot theorizing, official and amateur speculation that the Hess flight evoked, only the New York World-Telegram affected to doubt Fact No. 1. The Telegram hired a series of detective storytellers to mastermind the Hess Case. One, Lee Wright of Publishers Simon & Schuster, opined that Hess wasn't Hess...
...rehearsal, his comic gift appeared. Once when he was running over the line "ugh" for an Indian part, he remarked: "I don't know if I can sustain the emotion." Cook Book included Joe's most colossal gadget - the Fuller Construction Company Symphony Orchestra - and carried the crackpot through vaudeville and his great .Broadway days to his famed, screwily furnished home, Sleepless Hollow, at Lake Hopatcong...
...chief charge against the sociology offered at Harvard is that it teaches a lot of crackpot theory which can never serve any possible practical purpose. The attackers claim that it should give students a change to work with tangible problems, such a letting them collaborate on community projects, instead of memorizing a multitude of personal theory which has been cooked up by individual professors. Who cares if we are living in a "super-sensate culture"? That is just another way of describing the Machine Age, and the fact is certainly nothing new or startling. Sociology courses should set up certain...
...Guiberson's chief design engineer) presented him with a new design for a Diesel airplane engine. Guiberson sank $1,500,000 in it, has been trying to sell it for airplane use ever since. To his bankers, willing to back him in oil, lis engine was just a crackpot scheme.' Once, when he borrowed $2,500,000 for his oil business, they made him promise not to use any of it on the Diesel...