Word: pencil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strain; he hates uncertainty. All he could do now was to pace around headquarters, scribble memos to himself, a set habit at such times. One of his self-memos could stand as a masterpiece of military understatement: "Now I'd like a few reports." He doodled with his pencil, barked at his aides...
...fuzzy ends of these branches (see cut) gave penicillium its name, which comes from the Latin penicillus, meaning "brush" (forerunner of the modern pencil...
...supreme moment came in Parliament's gilt-crested Royal Gallery last fortnight, when King addressed members of the Houses of Lords and Commons. He had worked and reworked his speech with the little pencil stub he habitually uses. The address was, for him, an unusually succinct statement of his view that each Dominion must be free to go its own way within a loose Commonwealth framework. But it was no orator's triumph; Mackenzie King's drone had its usual soporific effect on his audience...
Next year what Dr. Fleming knew about the mold's bacteria-baiting by-product appeared in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. He had found out that the mold was some kind of Penicillium (from the Latin for pencil-the shape of the magnified mold). He named its byproduct penicillin...
...European-invented "repeating or everlasting match" - a pencil-size gadget that ignites on scratching, can be blown out and relit up to 140 times in a row - was suppressed. Diamond was glad to help keep it off the market because, as Justice quotes from Diamond files, it: 1) was "a distinct danger to the American match industry"; 2) "would be a fertile field for the rottenest kind of competition...