Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reason. Mitchell Paige, no cinema gyrene, was a quietly savvy guy. He neither smoked, drank, nor swore (his most rugged expletive was saved for the Japs: "damned slopeheads"). In Samoa he nursed a child through fever, was appointed by the natives as "Talking Chief"-tribal adviser...
...depicts a good guy (an insurance salesman, prosaically enough), gone wrong...
...real contribution to the thousands of English-reading people in Latin America," says Jefferson Caffery, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. "An indispensable link with the world beyond the horizon. It is impossible for one who does not live here to appreciate its importance" writes Puerto Rico's Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell. And Venezuelan Ambassador Diogenes Escalante calls TIME "the most efficient help to the cause of mutual understanding between the peoples of this continent...
...trials of aluminum dust on miners. In the Ontario gold mines, 34 silicotics breathed the dust for half an hour six days a week. After 200 to 300 treatments, 56% were improved, none were worse. At the same time 65% of an untreated group got worse. Dr. John William Guy Hannon of Washington, Pa. tried the dust on 176 silicotics in the ceramics, steel and glass industries, improved 168 of them. Famed Pathologist Leroy Gardner of Saranac Lake, N.Y. has also tried out aluminum (and other dusts) on silicotic guinea pigs, watched the successful results by X-ray and microscope...
...child on frozen snow. He learned to skate fast by hanging on to cars like other small boys all over the world and being chased by policemen. As a young man he had won a number of competitions when, one day in Budapest, he noticed that a guy who couldn't skate for beans, but was highly accomplished at pratfalls, kept the crowd in an uproar. Quickly deciding that slapstick paid off better than mere skill, Trenkler went out and bought a pair of baggy pants. He studied music-hall comics and adapted their tricks, next thought up tricks...