Word: encyclopedias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio program asks contestants to represent something or someone, then answer questions pertinent to the personality of that object. Wearing a pair of book covers and a monacle, Colman appears as the Encyclopedia Britannica. He answers his first questions and wins the program's limit, $160. Rather than take the money he asks for a chance to appear again risking the money in the double or nothing procedure...
After taking a "first" in chemistry at Oxford, he crossed to the U.S., studied chemical engineering at M.I.T., taught at St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., is now editing a chemical encyclopedia at Brooklyn's Polytechnic Institute. After two decades in the business, Chemist...
...incredible number of organizations, herbaceous or otherwise. Besides the purveyors of gardening supplies, who were selling everything from tractors to Hokinsonesque sun hats, there were representatives from the New England Wild Flower Preservation Society, the Blood Drive, the American Gourd Society, a company selling aluminum window frames, and the Encyclopedia Britannica. And it being St. Patrick's day, we were pleased to see that someone had included a model of an Irish Thatched Cottage...
...Sherman got an unfortunate reputation among upperclassmen. "Joe wasn't really cocky," said his roommate, "he just wasn't uncertain, as most kids that age are." Though many of his classmates had never seen a ship, the crew-cut kid with the square chin was a walking encyclopedia of Navy history, engagements and ships. In dining hall, when first classmen at his table fired questions at him, Sherman always knew the answers- and often in more detail than his seniors. "You're too smart; get under the table," he was ordered, and there he sat, without dinner...
...would justify all past failures. No one could ever accuse her of being a fuddyduddy. In her old age she approved of the new electric streetcars and telephones and raised her firm Peabody voice for women's suffrage. Author Tharp's judgment seems fair enough: "A walking encyclopedia of worthy causes, and . . . something of a pest. . . But no one could accuse her of insincerity...