Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German Hydrographic Institute reported last week that tuna and sardines, considered warm-water fish, are now being caught in the North Sea. Dr. Günther Böhnecke, the institute's chief, suspects that the fish have extended their range northward because the North Sea, like many other parts of the Northern Hemisphere, is slowly growing warmer...
Editor Bretscher in 1933 dispassionately analyzed the Nazis' destructive aims. N.Z.Z. was finally banned in Germany altogether when it printed an article saying it was common knowledge that the Reichstag fire was started by Göring, not by the Communists. (The German government continued to buy 200 copies of the paper a day for its own information...
Austin is an expert on the philosophy of language, which Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy, called "the center of philosophical interest in America today." White described Austin as "one of the leading English philosophers...
...many of the junior G-Men, for example, know how to lift a decent fingerprint from a dirty fragment of glass? Certainly very few--and fewer still could trace the box of matches found beneath a charred board back to the store where it was purchased...
Professor G. Wallace Woodworth has trained his Radcliffe group in the fundamental importance of vowels and consonants. He insists on carefully rolled r's and intense long vowels because, apart from textual clarity, only such treatment of the words can shape ensemble singing into a live and exciting sound. Closely related is his distinction between "covered" tone for soft passages and "open" tone for loud. Radcliffe's precise production of each type keeps the quieter music always vivid and makes for unusually brilliant climaxes. Above all, the Choral Society aims to entertain its audience; if their zeal occasionally sacrifices subtlety...