Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...green silkworms crawling around the Harvard laboratory of Assistant Professor (of zoology) Carroll Milton Williams look like normal specimens, but when Professor Williams tests them with a Geiger counter, they make it rattle like a cornpopper. The caterpillars are radioactive. Soon they will spin cocoons of radioactive silk and will eventually emerge, if not disturbed, as radioactive moths...
...silver-maned, bush-mustached old lion of a man had barely stepped out on the promenade deck when the New York press was upon him. "O.K., Dr. Schweitzer!" shouted the photographers. "Stand over there . . . now look this way-this way . . . Hey, Mr. Schweitzer, wave will-ya-with the hand, see? ... O.K., let's make him walk down the deck . . . Hey, Mr. Schweitzer...
...palm trees instead of cutting them down when a clearing is to be made. A Lambarene colleague reports that when a grapefruit was brought to Schweitzer as he worked late at night, he would always drop a spoonful of the juice on the floor beside him for the ants. "Look at my ants," he would say. "Just like cows around a pond...
When the critics had all put up their pens, some thought Sir Walter still held the intellectual field. He had carefully rejected all the pat answers, just as carefully decided that only the Christian world-outlook is universal enough for a university. Yet such Christianity must look more eagerly toward the future's addition of ideas and events than toward the past's tradition of them. Sir Walter's hope for the universities is that Christian teachers and students, seeking "new symbols" for old values, may "play the role of a 'creative minority,' from which...
...home, I passed the appliance stores, brightly lighted, some of them with television sets in the windows as a lure for the people to come in and look around. But the people stood on the sidewalk and watched the ball game through the window...