Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back his old job on the Board of Education; in 1935 he spent a few months as War Secretary (a job he did not like); later that year he became Lord Privy Seal. That being a job of few duties, Lord Halifax began, from time to time, to pinch-hit for Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden when Mr. Eden was away on diplomatic trips. Soon he was to do more than pinch-hit. On the same day that Adolf Hitler mocked Mr. Eden in a Reichstag speech, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain decided to change Foreign Secretaries...
...that furrow a Harvard executive's brow-tenure, housing, food, to mention only a few-could be solved speedily by a single, simple means: more money. Funds are lacking here, funds are lacking there, until it is fairly evident that the rich man among America's universities knows that pinch of scarcity far better than many suspect. The fact is that with its enormous endowment of $146,000,000, Harvard is financially pressed. It grows poorer at a rate that justifies that gravest fears for its future. It is threatened with eventual starvation in a full-stocked pantry...
...broadcast and shortwave ranges-one and one-half to 1,000 metres. Naturally the energy of each wave is tiny and each atom sends out a wave only once in 1,000 to 100,000,000 years. But there are so many billions of atoms in a small pinch of substance that Dr. Rabi gets a continuous program on his detector, which is a ribbon of incandescent tungsten in an oscillating electromagnetic field. He expects to use atomic radio to learn more about the nuclear structure and energy mechanism of atoms. The physicists admired his discovery and Dr. Rabi...
Died. Clyde Engle, 56, for the past 15 years coach of freshman baseball at Yale; of a heart attack; in Boston, Mass. As a Boston Red Sox pinch-hitter he hit the decisive "$50,000 fly ball" that Fred Snodgrass of the New York Giants dropped in the tenth inning of the eighth and final game of the 1912 World Series...