Word: mering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard's psycho-acoustic laboratory, the two doctors were working on earphones for the Navy. The listeners began to report strange, crunching sounds whenever they wore special earphones enclosing a small cavity. The sounds were at first discounted as mere heart thumps and breathing wheezes. But the investigators contrived a homemade gadget to clamp the earphones in place...
Defensively, the Badgers were nothing short of superb, blanking the highly geared Yale offense for the first time in 20 consecutive games. Levi Jackson, Ferd Nadherny, and company broke through the stubborn Wisconsin forward wall for a mere 89 yards...
...path of such an easy road to relief stands an almost immovable roadblock-the seven Housemasters. For these gentlemen, jealous of the sanctity of their several dining halls, last year threw up their collective hands in dismay at the thought of admitting a mere 23 outsiders apiece to such sacred precincts. Now the prospect of more than twice that number of invaders would be doubly hard for the Housemasters to swallow. And until these men relax a little the unhoused upperclassman can but stand and wait...
...attempts to break it up neatly into so many parts hell and so many parts humanitarianism. But there is nothing doctrinaire or diagrammatic about the play. Playwright Haines (himself an Air Forces veteran) writes something that could easily have happened; and his characters are people, not mere points of view...
...this "rape of Silesia," however, he proclaimed justifications that were echoed in every subsequent Prussian and German aggression. The mere legal rights were the least important. Prussia, he argued, was entitled to territory commensurate with her stature as a state; Prussia could govern Silesia better than Austria could; it was Prussia's destiny, and anyway he was only striking first, for it was a defensive war designed to "prevent others [from] seizing" Silesia, and to bulwark Prussia against her enemies. The works of Prussia's enemies, then and in the dreadful Seven Years' War that followed, were...