Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bombe Atomic." In a material sense, the dinner, or dinners (there were two: in the Presidential Room of the Statler Hotel and the ballroom of the Mayflower) were a success. Some 2,900 Democrats and their wives showed up and, at $100 a plate, cleared $200,000 for the Democratic campaign chest...
Hubble will know how to find the tiny bit of sky he wants to photograph. He will telephone instructions to an assistant down at the control desk; the massive telescope will swing almost silently. When Hubble is satisfied that it is pointed right, he will put a plate in the holder, watch through a microscope, and make careful minor adjustments while the scattered photons of nebula light (some of which have been traveling for a billion years) make their marks on the photosensitive emulsion...
...plate, when Hubble develops it, will not look like much: only a few faint smudges of silver granules on a film of gelatin. By itself, the first photograph may prove little, but there will be many others. Added together, they may tell man things about his universe that have puzzled him since he came here to live...
...headlines announced it. Tin-Plate Heir Henry J. ("Bob") Topping Jr. and Lana Turner, blonde and nubilissimous cinemactress, would be married as soon as he could get a divorce from Actress Arline Judge. From Hollywood, wires signed "Lana and Bob Topping" went out to 150 friends, inviting them to a big celebration at the swank Mocambo Club...
...loyalists on Tory Row, now Brattle Street, had left hurriedly for Canada, and the Yankee merchants who moved into the fine old houses established a standard of luxury that showed a new, rich era had indeed arrived. One party of Colonel Henry Vassall featured live bull-frogs in each plate of the guests' frog soup. This sort of thing threw Vassall into bankruptcy, but it was in good postwar style...