Word: nut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tough is a nut? Plenty tough, says the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research. Two Institute physiologists wondered how much muscle the baby plant needs to work its way out of the nutshell; they tapped an assortment of mixed nuts, applied hydraulic pressure through the bore and took careful readings as the shells cracked open. Some of the findings...
...some States-my own in particular -you can buy a license to drive a car for 25? at the corner drugstore. . . . A man or a woman or a child can . . . get behind the wheel. . . . If he is insane ... a nut or a moron does not make a particle of difference. . . . The States . . . take no steps to prevent you or me from being killed by some moron that has no more business at the wheel of a car than he has at the throttle of an engine...
...Superficially, nationalization of Britain's steel looked easy,, A few big firms employed most of the half million workers. But those firms had grown into huge vertical combines, in which it would be difficult to divorce ownership of vast iron-ore mines, limestone quarries, brickworks, diesel-engine works, nut-&-bolt plants. Just what parts of the steel industry did Wilmot propose to nationalize...
...banquet halls and smoke-filled rooms in Washington and Manhattan, U.S. publishers, editors and newsmen grappled last week with the postwar problems of the press. One was a tough nut that no amount of shoptalk seemed to crack: how to achieve the worldwide free trade in information that would help men know and understand each other? The matter was urgent: the headlines told of censorship trouble in Iran one day, news suppression in Bulgaria the next...
...Masses, to gangling Hall Drummond, 17, who sang his first Mass last week. Others: Tenor Maurice Bowker, 42, a scrap inspector in the Bethlehem Steel Co.; Miss Lillian Graves, 71, a soprano who also sings tenor and bass at rehearsals to keep busy ("She's a nut about Bach," says Jones); blind Fay Linn, who moved from Philadelphia just to sing in the choir, and learned the soprano text from Braille...