Word: layman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many a layman was struck by an odd item of news about the giant new B29. To avoid certain mysterious "supersonic" effects on the propeller tips, the whirling of its 16-foot-long propellers had to be geared down to one-third of the speed of revolution of the plane's engines...
...Great Layman. Chairman of the War Prisoners Aid Committee is John R. Mott, who at 79 is still the Y's most inspiring member. Last week, his physical vigor far from exhausted, strapping, square-jawed Dr. Mott was pursuing his favorite sports of boating and fishing in the Laurentian backwoods of Quebec...
...such towering significance as the story of penicillin. But that will not stop TIME'S Medicine staff from its quiet and patient search, week in, week out, for the best in fact and presentation to make the whole world's medical news make sense for the layman...
...Tribal God. But when Dr. Tittle's Committee on State of the Church tried to have this pacifist declaration reaffirmed last week, 17 of the 74 committee members balked. Led by a layman and World War I veteran, Lawyer Charles C. Parlin, of Englewood, N.J., the dissidents drew up a minority report, placing the Church squarely behind the war, took their report to the Conference floor for a showdown...
...Many a layman was jubilant that the pacifist grip on the Church had been broken. But the score of Army and Navy chaplains present were not so happy. Said one: "The Church has lowered her flag." Said another: "When this bloody business is over, there is going to be a wave of revulsion against war, and Methodist men are not going to be proud that their Church had any part...