Word: horizon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME editors go in for New Year's stock-takings and that sort of thing? The question occurred to me when I recently read the following confession by the editor of a British magazine called Horizon...
...Less fatigued than Horizon's conscientious Editor Cyril Connolly, TIME editors sanguinely observe that pessimism among editors is not infrequently a sign of editorial health. With tongue only lightly in cheek, TIME applauds the shrewd observation of Harvard's late President Eliot: "Things seem to be going fairly well, now that a spirit of pessimism prevails in all departments...
...Good Old Navy. The task force set off on its 550-mile push through the inland seas. G.I.s quietly rejoiced for their Navy-it was all over the place, close by and below the horizon...
...Montreal, Cardinal Villeneuve added: ". . . You cannot fight this war by condensing the horizon to this continent. The Nazi has got to be completely defeated, or there will be no peace for our way of life...
...unveiled his new two-row picker. Long handicapped by lack of capital, John Rust has a substantial new backer, Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., which built two of his new machines for the Mississippi field tests. Like the Rusts, machinery manufacturers are convinced that cotton mechanization is just over the horizon. Last week John Rust, more impressed than he was in 1935 with the social enormity of his invention, said he was still determined to establish a foundation out of his earnings to soften the blow for cotton hands...