Word: layman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year's final argument will be open to the public and the subject will be on the "taxibility of incomes of the beneficiary of a trust." Though this sounds like a dull and difficult subject for the average layman, any observer can get a fairly good idea of what is going on by reading the briefs, which are handed out like theatre programs at an argument...
...nature of the physical universe and the laws governing it. They cannot understand his explanation. To a small elite of mathematicians and physicists, the score of equations in which Einstein embodied his picture of the universe and its functioning are as concrete as a kitchen table. To the layman they are as staggering as to be told, when he is straining to make out the smudge which is all he can see of the great cluster in the constellation Hercules, that the faint light that strikes his eye left its source 34,000 years...
...fill the breach, the Church has launched an all-out drive among servicemen, and has found 5,000 volunteers so far. Candidates are screened at 108 selection centers throughout the Empire and in Army demobilizing areas. These centers are manned by committees of five (one of them a layman) who give prospective clergymen several days' once-over in an informal house-party atmosphere...
...from you is any indication, the story of "The Turbo-Encabulator in Industry" struck many a responsive chord. Aside from those of you who wanted to be reassured that TIME hadn't been taken in, we received the customary complaints about using too much technical jargon for the layman, observations such as "My husband says it sounds like a new motor; I say it sounds like a dictionary that has been struck by lightning"; suggestions that it "might have come out of the mouth of Danny Kaye," and plaintive queries like: "Is this good?" Wrote one bemused U.S. Navyman...
...decided that "Canadian Ace" tended to mislead the public into believing the beer came from Canada. The company suggested adding a big "Made in U.S.A." to the label, but FTC stuck to its ruling that "Canadian Ace" could not be used. Commissioner Mason took a good layman's look at the offending label, reported: "It is hard to tell exactly what this label does to me. . . . Every time I stare at it, I get a different emotion." But at no time did he get the emotion that he was being defrauded. Result: Manhattan Brewing could keep its "Canadian...