Word: reads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flying Neutrons." He found, said Jordan, "a lot of blueprints and maps and engineering drawings and scientific data" labeled "Oak Ridge, Manhattan Engineering District." Major Jordan had never heard of the Manhattan Project, but he noted the words down. He inspected a blueprint and noted that it read: "Walls five feet thick of lead and water to control flying neutrons." He also found, he said, a note on White House stationery, "which impressed me because it had the name of Harry Hopkins printed in the upper left-hand corner. I jotted down part of the message. It said...
...Tricks. Rugged, bellicose Defense Attorney Vincent Hallinan, who hasn't been quite so rambunctious since Judge George B. Harris clamped a six months' jail sentence on him early in the trial for contempt, rushed at John Schomaker like a cocky mahout. Pretending to read from a transcript of Schomaker's testimony in a 1939 court hearing, he asked the witness: "Do you remember being asked 'Are you a member of the Communist Party?' Answer...
...Bolivian Senator Tomás Manuel Elio, who by a strange coincidence is also legal adviser for the Patiño interests, introduced an amendment to the divorce law. When it came up for discussion last week, the President of Bolivia's Chamber of Deputies rose gravely to read a cable from Paris asking that the amendment be pigeonholed. "I do not ask you, Mr. President, to take any action contrary to law," the cable read, "but presently the only divorce suit ... at stake is the one brought against me ..." It was signed Cristina de Borb...
Higgledy-Piggledy. But of course, added Berlin, "many of these excellent young people could not . . . either read or write, as these activities are understood in our best universities. That is to say, their thoughts came higgledy-piggledy out of the big, buzzing, booming confusion of their minds, too many pouring out chaotically in the same instant . . . Somewhere in their early education there was a failure to order, to connect and to discriminate...
Since they had not learned how to read intelligently, "they tended to look to their professors to tell them not merely what books to read but sometimes what chapters and what pages; on being told, the more serious among them would throw themselves upon the recommended pabulum and would try to absorb it in a very frenzied fashion. They read rapidly, desperately and far too much. And because they tended to believe that all facts (and only facts) were important, and, what is more, equally important, the result was often a fearful intellectual congestion from which many of them will...