Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surely the older men are willing to be fathers. It is such belittling propaganda as Miss Johnson's which hampers us. Perhaps we ought to have an organization...
...life begins at 40 (Walter Pitkin) and ends at 40 in the trenches (Mary Johnson), it sure will be one hell of a nonsweet short life for us 40 '39ers...
...that's okay, says Miss Johnson, as brain and brawn are out, in the next slaughterfest...
Congress last week voted, and the War Department immediately spent, $46,400,000 for new airplanes, engines and other gear. The civilian in charge of Army buying, Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson, evinced no qualms when he reported to Franklin Roosevelt on the biggest peacetime order for aircraft. Some of the 571 planes ordered, the President heard, would do better than 400 m.p.h.; all are the best to be had. The contract awards (number of planes estimated unofficially...
...canyons were cut during the Glacial Age by surface rivers. This could have occurred only if the sea level was then nearly two miles lower than it is now - a presumption difficult to account for, even allowing for water drawn into the great Glacial Age ice sheets. Geologist Douglas Johnson of Columbia University last week announced an easier explanation: "sapping" by submerged springs. The Glacial Age rivers deposited great masses of sediment on the sea floor; water was forced through the sediment by hardening or by pressure and oozed out at the seaward face; this process cut the canyons...