Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world would have to decide the philosophical differences between him and Hutchins for itself. "Philosophy," he once wrote, "is of account only if ... it affords guidance to action." Today, his life is full of action, and it is hard for him to remember "that I am an old man." He remarried at 87 (his first wife died in 1927), and at 89 adopted two more children. In the past ten years he has published three books, is now at work on a fourth. "If it is better to travel than to arrive," he says, "it is because traveling...
...with one of the lowest VD rates of any nation (Scandinavian countries are lower), loses $100 million a year in industry man-days because...
...game 35,000 spectators, the biggest crowd ever to watch a sport event in South Carolina, jammed the stadium. The grimmest man present was big Rex Enright, Carolina's coach. His team had lost every game this season. If he lost on Big Thursday, he and everybody else in South Carolina knew that he'd better begin looking for another job. Before the end of the first quarter, Enright's team was behind, 13-0, and the Clemson stands were calling for their boys to pour...
...their wild state, says Moncrieff in the current issue of Discovery, moths did not eat wool. Their larvae ate dead animals on which the females deposited their small white eggs. But as soon as man started to make woolen clothes, many thousands of years ago, some moths began to change their feeding habits. With a good deal of difficulty, says Moncrieff, they learned to digest wool, have not yet completely adapted themselves to their unnatural diet. Researchers have proved that moth larvae grow faster when fed on fish meal or casein, and that unless they get vitamin B they never...
...Man at Work. Loewy and his 143 designers, architects and draftsmen were busier than ever spreading that name & fame on a dozen new projects. They had signed up to modernize Raglands department store on Texas' famed King Ranch (TIME, Dec. 15, 1947); they had just completed the first part of a face-lifting for Manhattan's Gimbel Brothers (cried Gimbels in full-page ads: "We are speechless"). Their new two-level Greyhound bus (the Scenicruiser) was being road-tested on Michigan roads. For California they were planning a state fair...