Word: maze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...became the top U.S. humorist of the day. He did it largely by making all the world a rabbit hutch and every man in it his father's brother. His first 17 books of prose and drawings, with their battles between the sexes, their bewildered males running a maze that leads inevitably into another, are the century's finest guidebooks to the schizophrenic ward of modern man's booby hatch. His new one. The Thurber Album, is a gently humorous grab bag of reminiscence, and a tribute to his family, his friends, and the all-but-normal...
...second trip through the same labyrinth, Theseus shows his talent. This time he never blunders, never touches the walls. He scurries along the corridors, whisks around the turns and gets to the cheese in twelve to 15 seconds. If he starts at a part of the maze that he did not explore on his first trip, he uses his trial & error method until he reaches a familiar part. Then he dashes for the cheese with confident precision...
...something new in the way of a chemical plant. From a distance, the $11-million factory looked like many another-a mass of storage tanks, pipes, warehouses, and above it all a thin wisp of smoke. But close up, it was like nothing else in the world. Amid the maze of gurgling pipes and steaming valves, scarcely a worker could be seen. Staffed by only 50 men-mostly chemical engineers-the plant runs continuously, 24 hours per day, with scarcely any need of human attention...
...would house the tiny piece of glass and enable it to perform its amazing function. Robert C. Jones '38, designed an electronic brain that instantly calculates the exposure settings on the camera to which the lens is coupled. Murray N. Fairbank '28, chief engineer on the project, developed the maze of machinery that feeds the film through the equipment and develops it in a minute's time...
...section as a means of raising armies. There is bound to be a vast number of uncertainties which effectively prevent those in the purview of draft boards from doing a great many things which they would enjoy and which would benefit them. Eliminating the selective process, with its bewildering maze of deferments and categories would allow those who wish to plan ahead to do so--they could decide upon a grand tour for some particular time, knowing that at least the odds are in their favor that the military will not upset their time-table...