Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...physicist exiled in Ireland. At Cornell, Dr. Bethe lives with his wife and mother in a cottage in Cayuga Heights. He does most of his work in an easy chair in the living room. Tools : a stack of reference books, a batch of paper, a slide rule, a fountain pen, a powerful brain...
...pupils study live mice, rabbits, ducks, chicks. They are fond of their pets. One day last October, they got a ten-pound Poland China shoat, six weeks old. Three hundred science pupils took a vote, decided to nickname him Fat Stuff. They made him a nice clean pen with a big trough, running water and a straw bed. They watched him get three vaccinations against hog diseases. They took delight in feeding him tidbits, fed him so well that in three months he grew to 120 pounds...
Time minded TIME readers would like to see TIME mind time. Whatever 1939 was, it was not "the penultimate year of the 20th Century's fourth decade" (TIME, Jan. 1). Being the 40th year of the 20th Century, 1939 was definitely ultimate. So, drop the pen, spread the fingers and count...
...rumpled suit scratched his pen steadily across the large white sheets. In the stillness of the Oval Room the two flags hung limp on the mahogany standards; blue smoke from his burning cigaret wavered up from the silver tray. On his desk were newspapers, staring headlines of bombings and battles; and a Bible, open at Isaiah...