Word: flared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Busiest group is the American Association of Variable Star Observers, who report their findings to the Harvard Observatory. Variable stars are distant suns which flare up, wane, flare up again with a mysteriously pulsating energy. Says one amateur observer: "Once you've watched a variable star in action, you're never the same again. It's like having your finger on the pulse of the universe." Variable stars (which include the Pole Star) pulsate, and nobody knows why or how, except that their behavior probably involves enormous transformations of matter into energy...
When Radio Playwright Arch Oboler erupted about "hate" last month (TIME, May 18), at the Institute for Education by Radio at Columbus, a few responsible thinkers were on hand. Fumed Oboler: "Anger [on the radio] is what people want, and they want hate." This flare-up had a profound effect on all present. Many of the educators left the conference in a reflective mood, and at least three of them have had something to say about radio in print since...
...show that a Vice Marshal of the R.A.F., John Eustace Arthur Baldwin, commanded it. Germany, busy at last on too many fronts, did not have the tools to head it off. When the British planes roared home and crawled down with nice precision on the flare paths of their island airdromes, only 44 were missing. For such a show, those losses were low (4%). After such a show, naturally, the returned air warriors all had a good...
...immunized against diphtheria and smallpox, the two diseases for which we have the surest means of prevention." Reasons for mass immunization: 1) last year 16,000 non-immunized U.S. moppets and adults came down with diphtheria, 1,300 non-vaccinated citizens with smallpox; 2) serious epidemics may flare up in crowded defense areas...
...requirements for art: "The surprise of art is not shock, but wonder. . . . The excitement it creates is not that of fear or loathing or irritation, but the excitement of revelation, understanding, love, and delight." Now & then Saroyan's spontaneity has the revelatory abruptness of a magnesium flare...