Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Busting his Britches. The new Senator hustled himself onto the first plane to Washington, received his Army discharge there in a single afternoon. He was a strange sight. He had put on weight in the Army (the harder he works, the more he eats and the rounder he gets), and now, with no time to waste on clothes-buying, he tried to stuff himself back into his prewar civvies. For months, until Helen Knowland finally took charge and ordered him some new suits, Washington held its breath in anticipation of the occasion when California's young Republican Senator William...
Some of the best college football players in the U.S. clambered onto the field at Mobile, Ala. last week to play their first football for pay, the North-South Senior Bowl game. Few were really interested in the score or even the salary ($400 each for the losers, $500 for the winners). They were there to win the attention of a score of National Football League scouts in the stands...
...done by Olaus Magnus in 1550, by Descartes in 1635, by Robert Hooke in 1665. "Snow Crystals" absorbed us, but we set it aside in time, realizing Nakaya could or would not tell us how to combat the stuff. Other pamphlets and books yielded nothing helpful, until we ran onto "Report on the Problem of Snow Removal in the City of Rochester, N.Y., 1917." "Continuous snow fighting will require the systematic and constant use of the sewers on the main streets." There it was. One sometimes knows instinctively when a thing is right. We knew the sewers would...
...affaire Jordan confused everybody, including the deposed coach, because anyone in a position to explain was, in the words of Boston journalists, "mum." Somehow the story first worked its way onto The Boston Herald's front page on the day after New Year's, and since Jordan seemed to be the only person who wasn't maternally "mum", some suspected that it was he who confessed...
...seven years IBM technicians in the U.S. and in Italy, working with Busa, devised a way to do the job. The complete works of Aquinas will be typed onto punch cards; the machines will then work through the words and produce a systematic index of every word St. Thomas used, together with the number of times it appears, where it appears, and the six words immediately preceding and following each appearance (to give the context). This will take the machines 8,125 hours; the same job would be likely to take one man a lifetime...