Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atomic scientists were scattering opinions as fast and freely as a cyclotron shoots out particles. Each pronouncement, analyzed separately in an emotional vacuum, might be sound. But it seemed to the public last week that the experts were talking in discordant tongues and at cross purposes...
...been experimenting with fruit flies, told the U.S. Conference of Mayors that the sins of the fathers may be visited upon the children, unto the nth generation, by radiation-induced changes in the reproductive cells (TIME, Sept. 22, 1947). Also, said he, atomic substances, scattered by planes or rockets, might make vast regions of the earth "hopelessly denied...
...Umbaugh experiment is being financed by Tom Slick, millionaire oilman, cattleman and inventor (TIME, Jan. 28, 1946), through his Foundation for Applied Science at the Essar (short for Scientific Research) Ranch. When the project was formally unveiled there last week, Foundation Director Dr. Harold Vagtborg optimistically gloated that it might be possible "to convert all cattle herds into registered stock of the finest quality in a single generation...
Reluctant to share the fate of Charles Dickens ("so much is known about him that might have happened to Wickens, or Pickens, or Stickens that his biographers have obliterated him"), Shaw devotes most of Self Sketches to correcting "what had been overlooked or misunderstood."* Sample restatements: ¶ "I have not yet ascertained the truth about myself. For instance, how far am I mad, and how far sane? I do not know." ¶ "Aunt Ellen, though humpbacked, was not a midget...
...long, a woman asked, might the visitation last? Charles Williams answers, through one of his characters: "Why, perhaps a thousand years, those of the millenium before the Judgment. On the other hand, since that kind of thousand years is asserted to be a day, perhaps till tomorrow morning...