Word: hatched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field. At that time work was split up between nine institutions, one as distant as Cuba and all going their separate ways. Harvard, as Professor Bailey put it, "has acquired too many nests to brood over, and certain of the eggs are beginning to decompose rather than hatch...
...Escape Hatch. In Portland, Ore., chased by police as he wove down the sidewalk on his motorcycle, James V. Garvey tried to get away by veering into a bar, was caught when the handle bars proved too narrow for the saloon door...
...make matters more difficult for the politicians, the Hatch Act of 1939 forbids federal appointees from politicking. "Patronage isn't much of a political weapon any more," said a Midwesterner. "When you do get a guy a job, he quickly tells you he's 'Hatched.' Sure he owes you his job-but he can't work for you. He wraps himself in the Hatch Act and says he's got to pretend not to know you any longer...
Judges for the Princeton debates were the Hon. Raymond S. Wilkins '12, of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Francis W. Hatch '19, president of the New York advertising firm of Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborne, and Ralph Lowell '12, president of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Corporation and the Lowell Institute...
...Centralia, Wash., reporters seized upon a theory propounded by Building Materials Dealer Jack Scherer: windshield glass is made from silica sand, which abounds on the Pacific shores of the State of Washington. Silica sand is full of sand-flea eggs. So, when the windshields get warm enough, the eggs hatch and the fleas have to chip the glass to get out. When he learned that his facetiously offered explanation had been wired across the country, the astonished Scherer granted that it was no more ridiculous than some others that had been publicized...