Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many an oldster still complains that the U.S. has lacked a classic youth's magazine since the death of St. Nicholas (peak circ. 100,000) in 1939 and Youth's Companion (500,000) in 1929. But the best of the late, lamented St. Nick, edited by Historian Henry Steele Commager, will be published this month by Random House...
...When the announcer shouted 'Now!' and there came this tremendous burst of light, followed ... by the deep-growling roar of the explosion, his face relaxed into an expression of tremendous relief." Oppenheimer recalls that two lines of the Bhagavad-Gita flashed through his mind: "I am become death, the shatterer of worlds...
Oppenheimer feared that postwar science would be organized to death, and scientists reduced to subservient government functionaries. He pleaded for the freedom and the future of "the small institutions in which scientists . . will have the leisure and privacy to think those essential, dangerous thoughts which are the true substance of science...
Charles spent two years at the University of London before his money ran out-and then got a job with a small publisher at $3 a week while studying nights at London's Working Men's College. Until his death in 1945, he worked as an editor of the Oxford University Press...
Cost of Dying. In Los Angeles, where death has an unusually competitive sting, Utter-McKinley Mortuaries mailed out certificates entitling the bearer to a $20 discount on funeral services...