Word: demonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disorderly Demon. Such was a strange story that came out of North Dakota last week. By an odd chance, it coincided with publication of a scientific work suggesting that it was remotely possible that Teacher Rebel and her pupils had seen what they said they had seen...
Theoretically, although the odds are trillions of trillions to one, such spontaneous activity is possible. The notion was first suggested by the late great Physicist James Clerk Maxwell, and physicists speak of it as "Maxwell's Demon." It is based on a fundamental law of thermodynamics known as "the principle of increasing entropy" (i.e., disorder...
Next day the Major shot down his first enemy plane. Life grew brighter. He shot down some more. The exultant Major got kill after kill. Last week he flew his "Little Demon" over Frankfurt and shot down an Me-109 and an FW-190. They were his 17th and 18th victories and they made 27-year-old Major Beckham top-ranking ace in the European Theater of Operations...
Drugstore Demon. Harold's first job was in an Altoona drugstore, where he one day "dispensed laudanum for paregoric," nearly died from the fright of his mistake. In 1890 he shifted to his uncle's drugstore in Chicago and saw a new world he despised. "The 'filthy rich' drove behind high-stepping horses drawing ornate equipages from which tall-hatted coachmen and footmen surveyed their surroundings with a truly devastating scorn." For three years Harold Ickes glared at "the intangible ingredients out of which a careful architect was to build a robust curmudgeonly character." He learned...
...circle of Marines clustered about one of the lads who had a reputation for being a demon with the gals. These, he said, were letters from his Number One girl. 'That's the only dame he could never make,' said one of his admirers good-naturedly. 'He wants to MARRY her!' The Sheik only chuckled. 'F- you, Mac,' he said, indulging in the Marines' favorite word. 'The trouble with you is you never met a virgin...