Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Utilitymen regard the new turbine as a symbol, great as the monumental dams of the several power Authorities, that their own spirit of technological pioneering is not moribund, as friends of Government power claim. As a sound dollars-&-cents weapon against Government control, it reaffirms Thomas Edison's remark: "Steam power is business; hydro power is politics...
...current layman's medical fad, a subject of conversation dear to sufferers, who like to give each other such advice as "Don't let a nose and throat doctor touch your sinuses; if you do, you'll have trouble the rest of your life." Such a remark, heard "almost every day," bothers Nose & Throat Specialist Russell Clark Grove of Manhattan. To prove it false, he published last week a popular handbook on sinus diseases (Sinus; Knopf...
...last for eternity and its centuries. . . . Then the Turks overwhelmed Lazar, And the Tsar Lazar was destroyed, And his army was destroyed with him, Of seven and seventy thousand soldiers. All was holy and honourable And the goodness of God was fulfilled. The song annoyed Novelist West. Her first remark was: "So that was what happened, Lazar was a member of the Peace Pledge Union." To herself she said: "Lazar was wrong, he saved his soul and there followed five hundred years when no man on these plains, nor anywhere else in Europe for hundreds of miles in any direction...
Marilyn's only remark was. "It's been fun, but I would have liked to hear some of the answers." Her only kick against Harvard men was that she "hates to have them say Wellesley girls are popular and cute, and Radcliffe girls such students drips. They're not all, you know," she added with a wink...
...street department. It needs more supervision. Snow removal should be planned more carefully, and there is an opportunity to save a lot of money that way. Now they fear up a street to run in a pipe, and leave it up most of the year? This last remark referred to the means condition of Kirkland Street near the New Lecture Hall last fall and winter...