Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Latest contribution to the armed forces of the country will be the CRIMSON's loss when Ernest Vaillencourt batter known to five years of undergraduate editors as "Ernie," officially joins the Navy within the next fortnight...
...week's end the President appointed one of the toughest "sundowners"* of them all as CINCUS. To be field boss of all the U.S. Navy in all seas he named Admiral Ernest Joseph King, 63, egg-bald, nitroglycerine-tempered, two-fisted, acid-tongued Commander of the Atlantic Fleet (CINCLANT), onetime Aeronautics Bureau Chief. To replace King as CINCLANT he raised small Rear Admiral Royal Eason Ingersoll, 53, at present Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, an exacting, reserved veteran. The promoted admirals were "taut ship" commanders (meaning rigid disciplinarians, as opposed to "happy ship" officers). Air-power exponents were speechless...
...scarcely been explored. While U.S. scientists speculated upon the discoveries the device might lead to, they welcomed to their front ranks its brilliant young inventor, Donald William Kerst, 30, who calls the machine a "betatron." The cyclotron, whose invention won a Nobel Prize for University of California's Ernest Orlando Lawrence, hurls positively charged particles, the nuclei of atoms. But the betatron hurls the negatively charged particles which spin about the nuclei of atoms. Unlike the cyclotron's positive particles, the betatron's hurtling electrons will not effectively smash atoms-for one reason, they weigh only...
...B.M.I, accepted for publication They Started Something (But We're Gonna End It!), by Robert Sour, Don McCray and Ernest Gold. Some of 260 titles submitted in three days: Let's Take a Rap at the Japs, Taps for the Japs, We're the Guys to Do It, Those Nasty Nasty Nazis...
...Married. Ernest Tener Weir, 66, head of National Steel Corp.; and Mrs. Mary E. Hayward, 25; he for the third time, she for the second; in Baltimore...