Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their widespread reproduction in the U.S. press. The originals were given to the Library of Congress. Effect on one Government agency (Archibald MacLeish's Office of Facts & Figures) was to split it down the middle, with Chief MacLeish enthusiastically pro, Chief of Operations William B. Lewis fearful lest the paintings horrify rather than inspire...
...where the Japanese would strike, only the Japanese knew. They still had the aggressor's supreme advantage. Not for many months would General MacArthur have the force to seize the full offensive advantage for himself. Meantime he had to judge where the Japanese might strike, and prepare accordingly, lest he lose in southern Australia the continent's main ports, population and production centers, the place where he could assemble his forces for offense...
Like most museums, the New York Botanical Garden refuses to name its hideaway, lest passionate amateur collectors burgle its treasures. Its 50,000 type specimens include plants gathered by the Lewis & Clarke Expedition, by Explorer John C. Frémont (first Republican candidate for President), the first surveyors of the U.S.-Mexican border...
Published last week was one of the few manuals in English on the Rohrschach lest (The Clinical Application of the Rohrschach Test, by Ruth Bochner and Florence Halpern; Grune & Stratton; $3). Written by psychologists from Manhattan's Bellevue, it was no work for the layman. But it did show that this serious test could be as much fun as a parlor game...
...Voluntary censorship" of all U.S. scientific publications was announced by the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council. Reason: lest research data of indirect military significance fall under enemy eyes...