Word: goblins
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...Aschersleben's citizens it was a great occasion. Goblin-eared, stiff-collared Oberbürgermeister Dr. Bailer seized the opportunity to make a speech boosting Aschersleben during lunch: "Gentlemen of the world's press, hearty welcome. . . . Great honor. . . . Our wonderful city . . . population 34,000, doubled since 1938. . . ." Then they were herded down the street, to Holzmarktstrasse No. I, where Wendell Willkie's grandfather was born...
...more facts and less sensation would result. Stripped of his power to prowl at will, Dies would soon find that the sum-total of his scares add up to little. Un-Americanism becomes a ghost story when told in installments before bedtime. But collected in one rational account, the goblin of subversive activities is cut down to man-size...
...distinguished scientist, Britain's Lord Ernest Rutherford, great formulator of the atom's electrical structure, has a way of having his way. Few weeks ago he published an article in which he referred to the tripleweight atom of hydrogen, generally called tritium, as "triterium." When this verbal goblin reached the eye of Dr. Kenneth Claude Bailey, professor of physical chemistry and authority on chemical etymology at University of Dublin, Dr. Bailey promptly took pen in hand and wrote a letter of protest which appeared in Nature last week. Excerpt: "The word 'deuterium' [accepted name...
...sentiments of the country at large with that of the undergraduate body. In both instances uniform traffic laws among states, and stricter driving tests were warmly urged. Although the College favoured compulsory insurance, the national sentiment gave it fourth ranking--probably seeing in it another manifestation of the "tax" goblin. As was to be expected, both groups condemned marking of offender's cars, and "governors". The former bears with it the taint of Naziism, for present-day speedsters in Germany have their cars marked with a large yellow cross. The disapproval of the installation of "governors" on cars would seem...
...none, such a position would certainly be statistically sound. The fact that so powerful a financial institution has become actively interested in utilities may be disconcerting to opponents of privately controlled light and power systems. But only a cartoonist could attempt to personify Mr. Morgan as Big Utility Goblin...