Word: igth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...page volume rolling off the presses this week, the igth edition of the American Medical Directory (first since 1950), the A.M.A. lists 240,638 physicians in the U.S. and Canada; 46,348 names have been added and 25,397 deleted because of death or retirement. Net gain...
Buntism derives from Sergeant Matthew Bunt, a British Marine who was two years a castaway on an uninhabited Pacific islet early in the igth century. When prim Captain Overton of H.M.S. Achilles stopped by, Marine Bunt, greeting him on the beach, showed some outer symptoms of extreme Buntism-"a paunch that hung over the belt of his tattered drawers, and cheeks which shook." But Captain Overton did not recognize the signs. "Show me round your little kingdom, Sergeant Crusoe," ordered the captain, "the stockaded hut and the wheat patch and the goat pen, and so on. This promises...
...evidence of their own eyes rather than the accepted (dun-colored) mode of seeing. Though they lost their first battles to a color-blind public, they could not possibly lose the war, since optical truth was on their side. The truth spread slowly. Toward the close of the igth century it was brought across the Atlantic by the best, of the American impressionists...
Chiefly responsible for the educational project is Cass D. Alvin, the Steelworkers' western regional educational director. Alvin likes to cite a page of labor history as the wrong way to cope with the problem: England's igth century "Luddites" tried to stem the infant Industrial Revolution by smashing up the new machinery. Says Alvin: "We could kick these new electronic machines like the Luddites did, but they wouldn't give a damn...
...Novelist Joseph Conrad, the Congo River was "an immense snake uncoiled" curving through "joyless sunshine into the heart of darkness." There was plenty of darkness in the Congo during the igth century "scramble for Africa," when Baudoin's great-granduncle, Leopold II staked out his monarchical claim to the uncharted Congo Free State. Leopold's rubber gatherers tortured, maimed and slaughtered until at the turn of the century, the conscience of the Western world forced Brussels to call a halt...