Word: glimmered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was indeed a faint glimmer of enlightenment over the U.N.'s General Assembly last week, and more than an occasional flicker of fraternity. All the week's major subjects were old quarrels, inevitably disinterred, but the U.N. Assemblymen approached them with new determination to have another go at the world's endless agenda of discord...
There's a glimmer of genuine pre-war Harvard around Cambridge these days, and it isn't House food. A glance at that high board fence circling the practices field out at Soldiers Field tells you that something of the good old days, the Irivial old days, is back. Just the fact of that fence is sort of reminiscent: before you even reach for your press pass you push football up out of its three-year hideout, onto the front page. Sure there was a Yale game last year (0-28), but that. . .well...
Russians who covet the atomic bomb seemed to be able to find a whole molecule of comfort in not having it. Last week the illustrated weekly Ogonek ("Glimmer") reported (in all seriousness): "In America psychiatrists are worried about a new disease called Atom Madness. Every day lunatic asylums are receiving several persons who complain that they are beginning to split. Others say that they have discovered a new bomb which will destroy the earth and all the other planets...
...dimension of measurement itself." Pun Pudding. These tiny pills of theory were carefully concealed in a pudding of puns, skits and music. Human Adventure, setting out to be both entertaining and educational about Einstein, was only partly instructive, not wholly entertaining. Fadiman tried to give his hearers a glimmer of the theory's importance : atomic scientists had used it, he said, in calculating the amount of energy in an atom. Concluded Fadiman: "Before Einstein, there was one essential error in the logic of physics - it considered...
Highest ranking and most outspoken of German radio commentators is Lieut. General Kurt Dittmar, who was retired from the Finnish front in 1941 because of illness. Last week Dittmar, finding no glimmer of cheer in the black situation, recalled the glorious career of Frederick II ("Frederick the Great") of Prussia, onetime idol and inspiration of Adolf Hitler. Frederick had fought the Seven Years' War (1756-63) against a formidable coalition-Austria, France, Russia, Sweden. Finally, with some help from England, he wore them all out. For eleven years before 1756, Frederick had built up his army, laid down immense...