Word: eureka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eureka! At last a solution for the nation's financial troubles, i.e., the national debt, has been found...
Battle Ground. The National University, when young Miguel Aléman entered in 1924, was a boiling place where students fought in the corridors and in their newspapers debated every idea spawned by the Revolution. Aléman was in the midst of it all, editing a paper called Eureka. "Good laws should not perish in the country," he wrote, "but when the needs of the people are stronger than good laws, then the laws must go. The Revolution has overthrown law because law failed the people." Ramon Beteta taught Aléman economics that year. "He wasn...
...Arctic Bay (see map). Only two of them have been pinpointed yet. The headquarters station will be at Winter Harbor on Melville Island and will be in operation by next August. The other will be still further north-700 miles from the North Pole-at Ellesmere Island's Eureka Sound. It will be set up probably in April. Exploratory parties will recommend sites for the other seven stations later...
...coastal cities might be destroyed by the atom bomb (TIME, May 13), Roger Babson, paid counselor to businessmen (Babson's Reports, Inc.) and gratuitous adviser to the world, has been looking for a place to hide. Last week, in the heart of Kansas, he found it. In Eureka (pop. 3,803), Babson bought a dilapidated three-story Main Street building occupied by a beer tavern and roomers. He intends to construct vaults underneath it, deposit in them the voluminous records of his wealthy clients...
...While brooding in a public bath over a question posed to him by King Hiero of Syracuse-how to determine whether the King's crown was made of pure gold-Archimedes hit on the answer, jumped up, ran home naked, shouting "Eureka!" (I have found it.) The solution: by weighing the crown under water, Archimedes easily determined how much heavier it was than water, compared the result with the known specific gravity of pure gold. A floating body, he went on to show, displaces its own weight in water...