Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hyland, he wrote, insisted that the Japanese be given full credit for their magnificent behavior throughout the crisis, but actually the Colonel himself and his team of 10 officers and 17 men served as the main rallying point for the crushed and stunned natives. (One of Hyland's staff, a young officer who drove an army truck up a blazing driveway where Mydans was shooting pictures, leaped out, tossed some cans of gasoline in the truck and backed out furiously, shouting at Mydans, "looks like you found a story." He turned out to be former TIME circulation department worker...
...week's Science magazine, Dr. Alber Wolfson of Northwestern University advances his explanation: that they are led astray by the earth's fickle geology. According to a fairly well established theory, says Dr. Wolfson, the continents were once bunched together in two main masses: "Laurasia" (North America and Eurasia) and "Gondwana" (South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia), which were separated only by shallow seas (see map). During the Cretaceous period, 60 million years ago, both masses broke up and drifted slowly apart, their light granitic rocks floating on the heavy, plastic basalt that underlies both the oceans...
...does the Church of England make so few recruits? The main answer is surely fairly simple. People are more interested in problems that we used to call religious than ever before, but the reason why they don't go to church is that they don't and can't believe what is taught there. Once people believed that they were going to heaven or hell in the same sense that they would get to Manchester if they started from Euston and to Brighton if they went from Victoria. Nothing can revive that belief. Once they believed that...
...side bets as Bub-0-Loon, three-dimensional pictures, the "everlasting match" (TIME, Oct. 13). Last winter he quit his $150,00b-a-year job as executive vice president of Universal-International Pictures to make side bets his life work. One of them turned out to be a new main chance: the Indonesian Republican government heeded $80,000 fast, and Matty Fox thought he could arrange it. He did. Then he, got down to cases...
...bringing back impressions of train travel that might give Americans a shock of recognition-"and the dread tolling of the engine's bell-surely, apart from that monster's prehistoric trumpetings, the saddest sound in Christendom-as one's huge metallic caravan edges slowly through Main Street...