Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western Hemisphere philosophers, were anything but favorable. All Cuban and most Mexican philosophers declined. So did nine members of the American Philosophical Association, pointing out that academic freedom was nonexistent under President Juan Perón. All told, just three U.S. philosophers and half a dozen U.S. lighter-weights accepted...
...took a master's degree in home economics at Cornell, is a young housewife who knows how to turn out a lemon pie. One day husband Robert, a chemist in Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s Pittsburgh laboratories, got to wondering if anything on earth was fluffier or lighter than Margery's meringue topping. That helped him along with a scientific idea...
...other materials, finally hit on a phenolic resin as the best. This week, Westinghouse claimed that Sterling's "meringue," made by heating the resin with a catalyst to 350° F., was the world's lightest solid. At any rate, it was ten to 20 times lighter than the fluffiest pie topping...
...right and he had no spare. Then, as Lewenthal retells it, he made for a shadowy little bistro, telephoned a garage and ordered a bite to eat. A few age-stained canvases were hung about the walls. One even had a hole in it. Lewenthal flicked on his cigarette lighter and looked more closely at the grimy thing. He almost jumped out of his skin...
Television. Radio Corp. of America unveiled its long-expected 16-inch metal television tube (see cut). It is 18½ lbs. lighter than those made of glass and with mass production will eventually reduce the price of 16-inch television table model sets to "about $400" from the present price of $495. To meet the new competition, Corning Glass Works announced that the price of its 16-inch glass tubes, in mass production, would...