Word: enigma
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...continuous caster is the offspring of a marriage between a steel producer and a user. Cleveland's Republic Steel Corp. did the first research, then got the boiler-making Babcock & Wilcox Co. to solve the enigma of high-speed transfer of heat. Republic, which has millions tied up in conventional equipment, holds that the revolution is still far off, but has agreed to license the process to anyone who wants...
...often a perplexing task for Freshmen to pick a place to live, and this year it is even more of an enigma than it used to be. For the Houses no longer seem to have the seven distinctly different personalities that they once had; save for a few surface peculiarities, they are pretty much the same. And there is a new consideration that cannot be discounted: with the vacancies far outnumbered by the Freshmen anxious to fill them, picking one of the more popular Houses may not be the shrewdest possible move...
Since the flight from Bordeaux to England on June 18, 1940 which made him famous, he has been an enigma to many. Once, however, he painted a revealing self-portrait : a passage in his remarkable, prophetic book, The Army of the Future,* published by Colonel de Gaulle in 1934. He wrote: "The depth, the singularity, the self-sufficiency of a man made for great deeds is not popular except at critical times. Although when in contact with him one is conscious of a superiority which compels respect, he is seldom liked. Moreover, his faculties, shaped for heroic feats, despise...
Stalin was something of an enigma and Churchill, says Reilly, was completely understood only by Fala, the President's photogenic Scottie. Churchill once sent Roosevelt a dozen records of his favorite speeches. They were smashed when Secret Service agents became suspicious of the package. "I told F.D.R. of his loss," Reilly reports, "and he resigned himself to it rather easily...
Inside Job. The Paris press, suddenly waking up to what France-Soir called "the most extraordinary enigma in criminal history," screamed MURDER. As a horde of reporters and cameramen built the case into a sensational story, a stocky, methodical detective named Edmond Bascou, one of the Sûreté Nationale's best, took over the investigation...