Word: magnums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such a faux pas was impossible last week because the Penhoet Shipyards, sagacious builders of the superliner, had provided an automatic bottle-smasher, needing only to be tripped by Mme Lebrun. The christening bottle was a monster, a triple magnum holding six quarts, "Largest Champagne Bottle in the World...
...astronautics." Russia has her Professor Nikolas Rynin. In the U. S. the only important practicing rocketeers are Dr. Darwin O. Lyon and Professor Goddard. Professor Goddard is now working on experiments at Roswell, N. Mex. under patronage of the Smithsonian Institution and a Guggenheim fund. His magnum opus is a proposed turbine rocket ship by which the exploding gases will drive propellers while the ship is in lower atmospheres, change to direct rocket action in the upper strata where propellers lose efficiency...
...April 6). Publisher Harper says Dorsey had been working intensively on Man's Own Show for four years, implies that overwork hastened his end. If Scientist Dorsey's excitement over Why We Behave Like Human Beings excited you, you will probably want to read his hard-wrought magnum opus. Says Dorsey: "I have attempted to . . . discuss human beings and civilization as objectively as though I were neither human nor civilized, but nevertheless had retained my human right to be curious about everything, my acquired interest in anything or anybody, and my constitutional privilege to speak my mind about...
...Kimball's magnum opus is to be a complete daily weather map of the ocean - some day of the upper air. To the completion of that task he is as devoted as a painter to an unfinished canvas. That, he says, is why he has never flown. "I don't believe I ever will. I want to see this work through. I see no reason I should take the extra chance...
...Northcliffe died insane but his Daily Mail was hitting at the 2,000,000 mark, so he was called a great man. He had the kind of brains often prized as first-class because it produces numerically big results. Though one of his technical peers (Lord Salisbury) called his magnum opus "a journal produced by office boys for office boys," Panegyrist Hamilton Fyfe dares repeat the slur, trusting in his faith that the big battalions are on the side...