Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tests, a six-year-old child is seated in front of three cylinders, one right before him and the other two a short distance away. The child is asked to name his favorites of two toy figures on the two distant cylinders...
...period the midshipmen made a game of it. Then Notre Dame's first-stringers ripped off three touchdowns in 8½ minutes, and Leahy went to work. He pulled out towering (6 ft. 4½ in.) Right End Leon Hart, perhaps the best all-round football player in the business, benched Tackle Jim Martin and gave All-America Fullback Emil ("Red") Sitko the rest of the afternoon off. By scraping the bottom of his substitute barrel and forbidding the use of the forward pass, Leahy held Notre Dame scoreless in the fourth period; But the score was already...
...salary is now $10,000, and he may get a percentage of the gross take. *Microbiologists would prefer that laymen call each organism by its right name, but in the privacy of their own laboratories, they often call them all "bugs." *From the Greek for "white twisted fungus." *With nearly all microorganisms, a species is made up of many strains which may differ as much as a German shepherd differs from a Pekingese in the dog species. *Marketed by Parke, Davis & Co., which financed Burkholder's work, under the trade name Chloromycetin (pronounced Chloromy...
...show and sightseeing, the bankers reelected Mrs. Bernice D. Parks, 45, president. Mrs. Parks started in as a $110-a-month secretary, is now assistant treasurer of Boston's Provident Institution for Savings, one of the oldest mutual savings banks in the country. She thinks that women are right at home in banking. After all, she says: "Seventy percent of the wealth of this country is in the hands of women...
Harvard was doing all right until it ran out of players and strength. That was one period and two touchdowns before the end of the game, and it was those last 15 minutes that made the difference between a good showing and another bad defeat...