Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resulting Dictionary is handsomer than its British sister, far freer and less formal in style. The first is owing to Publisher Charles Scribner Sr., the second to the Dictionary's original editor, Historian Allen Johnson, both of whom died in time to fit into their proper volumes. It contains fewer biographies (13,633) by more contributors (2,243). Originally Editor Johnson decided to set a limit of 10,000 words to each biography, but that was exceeded in five instances: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Woodrow Wilson...
...Dictionary a U. S. citizen must have made some "original contribution to American life." On this principle many minor Revolutionary heroes and obscure Congressmen are omitted, but Volume XX contains an ample history of Samuel Stockton White (1822-79), a Philadelphia manufacturer of dental supplies who notably improved the fit of false teeth. Bridge Expert Shepard Barclay contributes biographies of his late colleagues Dr. Milton C. Work and Wilbur Cherrier ("Quick Trick") Whitehead whose maxim was: "The law of averages is God's law and you can't go very far wrong on that...
...business or educational administrator" fit to handle $7,000,000 a year...
Another surprise witness last week was Joseph B. Eastman, now back as an active ICCommissioner after a turn as Railroad Coordinator. Mr. Eastman used the intricate chain of terminal transactions to make the point that public regulation was defeated in that the ICC could, if it saw fit, forbid MOP to buy the properties, but it could not save MOP from loss...
...Small particles like dust, fortuitous aggregations of molecules and droplets of water tend to deflect short wave lengths of light which approximately "fit" them, while longer wave lengths curl around these small obstacles. Long infra-red rays go farther through fog than visible light and still longer radio waves can go through buildings. In the visible spectrum, blue light is shorter in wave length than red. In the case of the evening sun, the blue components are scattered in all directions, and this subtraction makes the sun look red. But the blue light is scattered again & again in the atmosphere...