Word: globular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Jacob Astor III, globular 35-year-old great-great-grandson of the original, was recuperating on his New Jersey estate from a case of measles...
There was something in the air. At the Sporting Club in Monte Carlo, the fabulously wealthy Aga Khan was moved to dance in public for the first time in 17 years, happily jounced his globular person (250 Ibs.) through a rumba with Ballerina Yvonna Chauvire (no Ibs.). In Chicago, retired Soapmaker Walter R. Kirk (Jap Rose, Kirk's Flakes) was sued for a separation by Wife Louisa, who said he was 72, charged him with adultery in 22 instances. (Not so, said Kirk-besides...
...Deals. The deal which automatically made United World the big frog was made by globular little Matthew Fox, 35, U-I's executive vice president and United World's board chairman. Matty Fox, who started his movie career at eight as an usher in Racine, Wis., made his first deal in little movies by buying up the 6,000-subject Filmo-sound Library of Chicago's Bell & Howell, one of the biggest U.S. makers of projection equipment. Built up to promote movie-projector sales, the library consisted mostly of non-entertainment films. But Bell & Howell also leased...
...separate atoms. They get bigger & bigger. Gradually they drift together. Part of the force which makes them concentrate, said Dr. Lyman Spitzer Jr. of Yale, is gravitational attraction between the particles. More important: the pressure which radiation from the surrounding stars exerts to pack them into a thick, globular swarm...
Before I came to Harvard I'd been told the earth was globular...