Word: reveal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High electronic magnifications (105,000 diameters) of vinylchloride polymer, a rubberlike synthetic, show a mottling of dots which scientists assume to be actual molecules; 25,000-diameter pictures of soft face-powder granules reveal the jagged projections which make them cling to the skin. Electron photographs of typhoid germs and intestinal bacteria disclose delicate, wavy filaments which may be their means of locomotion...
Miller's statement last night did more than reveal Yale's withdrawal from major-league grid ranks. It was an unequivocal declaration that the University of Pennsylvania is sponsoring professional football, and that the Elis want no further grid relations with their Quaker neighbors...
...named Margery Sharp, author of The Nutmeg Tree. Professor Isaac Pounce disrupts the village of Gillenham by uncovering a legendary steppingstone from which unchaste lassies, unfaithful wives invariably slip into the brook.* Miss Carmen "Smith," the artists' model, slipped of course; but nobody expected that the stone would reveal the professor's mild nephew, Nicholas, to be a bastard-or that Nicholas would rejoice at the news...
Secretary and treasurer of the organization is Leo Rost'42, son of a noted Louisville distiller. Rost refused to reveal the size of the organization yesterday but he did express a hope that the Club might increase 50% in size during the next week...
Young People (20th Century-Fox). Legend has established U. S. vaudevillians as loudmouthed, softhearted, pertinacious vagabonds. It has established New Englanders as grim, laconic moralists. According to Young People it takes an act of God to reveal the goodness in either. When Joe and Kit Ballantine (portly Jack Oakie and aging Charlotte Greenwood), a veteran song & dance team, decide to give their dimpled foster daughter Wendy (Shirley Temple, retired) a solid New England background, they leave the footlights for a Vermont farm. In the obvious conflict that ensues, the natives win hands down...