Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obscure scientific tracts. But when an inventor named Alexander Graham Bell took over as the society's president in 1898, he decided that it needed a full-time editor and a broader appeal. A year later he found the right man: Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, a 23-year-old, ninth-generation New Englander. Gilbert Grosvenor married Bell's daughter, ran and built the Magazine for the next 55 years, and left his son to take over after he retired...
Under these circumstances, Cannon does not encounter much opposition in Kannapolis. But last year Bedford Worth Black, an aggressive, 41-year-old lawyer, dared to file for the state legislature without consulting Cannon. What was more. Black pointedly conducted an independent campaign disavowing allegiance to anyone, "except the people." He slipped into office ahead of the incumbent, Eugene Bost-Cannon's first cousin...
...minute ovation, and Stockholm's critics lathered their reviews with praise. Composer Blomdahl, 43, would own to only one temporary misgiving about his first popular success: during the two years he spent writing it, he feared that before it was finished its interspatial theme would already have become old...
Since he swept the short dash events at the 1956 Olympic Games, 23-year-old Bobby Morrow, late of Texas' Abilene Christian College, has been recognized as the world's No. 1 sprinter. But this year Morrow has won occasionally but lost often-not because he is running any slower but because a new crop of sprinters has appeared to make a wholesale onslaught on the 9.3-sec. world record for the 100-yd. dash. So far this year three of Morrow's challengers-Bill Woodhouse, Ray Norton and Roscoe Cook-have equaled the world record...
...little blue-and-white Piper Comanche slipped in under the light overcast almost unnoticed, touched down gently at Los Angeles International Airport and taxied to the customs shack in a remote corner of the sprawling field. Out stepped a 56-year-old grandfather. "I've got 30 gallons of gas left," announced Max Conrad, "and I'd like to trade that for a glass of water." For Veteran Pilot Conrad, it had been a long time between sips of water. Carrying only a supply of coffee and tea, he had flown an incredible 7,683 miles nonstop from...