Word: meter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently, Karl Van Meter, development director of the National Association of Manufacturers, telephoned us to ask for 120 copies of TIME'S Oct. 18 cover story on Historian Douglas Southall Freeman. He was about to address the graduating class of the Dale Carnegie Institute to the effect that if you keep an account of all your time, you won't waste much of it. Biographer Freeman, he figured, as set forth in TIME'S story, was a classic example of this attitude, and passing out copies of the story would serve to illustrate the point...
...Example: two weeks ago, Alvin Meyer, a 53-year-old farmer of Van Meter, Iowa, walked into Des Moines' radio station WHO, announced that he wanted to go on the air for Truman, plunked down $85 to pay for the time. In his broadcast, he explained: in 1932 he was broke and facing foreclosure. Today he owns 540 acres of land, 500 hogs, a restaurant, and twelve filling stations. It was the Democrats and their aid to farmers that did it, he declared. Why change...
Tacho opened an agency for Lexington motor cars (he still prides himself that he can take down an engine), but that flopped. He taught boxing, refereed at football matches. In León he was a meter reader. Then, briefly, he got a city job, inspecting privies. It got him the nickname el mariscal, because the long flashlight he carried looked like a marshal's baton...
Jurist Prudence. In Memphis, Judge John W. Wilson recessed court for five minutes when Juror Ewell P. Thompson announced that he had to go out and put another nickel in the parking meter...
...atomic pile and exposed to a storm of neutrons, is transmuted into a single mercury isotope with atomic weight 198. This one-isotope mercury gives off green light waves of extraordinary uniformity, as measuring sticks. They are much better than cadmium light; they are vastly better than the meter bar. Scientists using mercury light should be able to measure with an accuracy of one part in 100 million...