Word: interested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Returning to their old home (last occupied by the Senate in 1859) while the regular Senate Chamber undergoes repairs, the Senators seemed to take a quickened interest in their work. All week long they turned out in record attendance, jostling through the hordes of clerks, secretaries and minor factotums that clogged the narrow corridor to the entrance...
...radioactive rock does not contain uranium. It may contain thorium (also radioactive), in which the AEC has only a faint interest. The booklet describes a rather complicated process by which the prospector can test his find with ultraviolet light...
That was four disillusioning years ago. Now, in Britain's venerable Nature magazine, Professor Huxley has recorded his changed opinion. Recent events demonstrate, he says, "that science is no longer regarded in the U.S.S.R. as an international activity of free workers whose prime interest is to discover new truths and new facts, but as an activity subordinated to a particular ideology and designed only to secure practical results in the interests of a particular national and political system . . . The new social-political orthodoxy is . . . inimical to the free spirit of science. There is now a scientific party line...
...shelf. A face lifting, some rigorous massage and the trick of pronouncing the word "brush" before entering the drawing room (it fixes her smile) convert her Edwardian pomp into a garish girlishness. Cedric completes his round of conquests by capturing Polly's husband, who has lost his interest in women anyway, and whisking him and Lady Montdore off to a gay Paris holiday. "So here we are, my darling," chortles Cedric to an old friend, "having lovely cake and eating it, too, which is one's great aim in life...
...Tulsa, a furniture store offered every customer three chances on a 1/16th interest in an oil well being drilled near by, kept the public posted in daily newspaper ads on the depth of the well...