Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...careful personality of Tom Dewey himself. It was just that thought which had caused the real opposition to his nomination. Though nearly all Republicans respected him for his administrative skill, and admired him for his ability to command the loyalty of top-notch aides, a variety of Republicans felt he was not the kind of man they could cotton to. Old Guardists could love John Bricker, young folks could idealize Harold Stassen. others could be devoted to Statesman Vandenberg. Dewey, it was variously said, was too mechanically precise to be liked, too watchfully unbending to be confided in, too coldly...
...average of over 100 cosmic particles of some sort pass through every human head every minute, according to Millikan, but they cannot be felt. Elaborate special apparatus is needed to observe them. Some scientists work with stacks of Geiger tubes, which register each particle that passes through them. Others use special photographic plates, where certain particles leave microscopic tracks of silver in the sensitive emulsion. The best instrument, and the hardest to use, is the Wilson cloud chamber, where the particles make visible tracks of white condensed moisture...
...amazed at the fortune his painting brought him ("It can't be mine," he said once when someone told him his bank balance. "They've made a mistake at the bank; it must belong to someone else"). He felt miscast as a portraitist: "Portrait painting is a pimp's profession...
Churchmen of all faiths were beginning to suspect that the movement toward a united Protestantism might paradoxically increase the scandal of Christian disunity by making the cleavage between Protestant and Catholic sharper than ever. But others, like Italian Waldensian Leader Jean Gonnet, felt that the Vatican would be just as happy about the Protestant movement toward unity as the most ecumenically minded Protestant. Said Professor Gonnet: "Rome is well pleased to see other Christians marching towards unity, because in her opinion this will inevitably lead to a return to the fold under one sole shepherd-the Pope...
After looking over the prospects for the second half of 1948, the Federal Reserve Board last week felt bullish enough to risk a prediction. This year's profits, said its June Bulletin, would be even larger than 1947's record $17 billion; dividends, too, would be higher...