Word: rods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proust is gone. Hemingway reaches down, grabs one of the rods by its tip and pulls it to the roof. He jerks once to set the hook, then with slow, graceful movements he pumps the rod back, reels a few feet, pumps, reels. To protect his back, he lets his arms and one leg do the work. By the shivery feel on the line he can identify the catch. "Bonito," he tells Gregorio. "Good bonito." With smooth speed, he works the fish close to the stern. Gregorio grabs the wire leader and boats a blue-and-silver bonito of about...
...Hemingway goes into action again. "Beautiful!" he cries. "Dolphin. They're beautiful." After landing his fish, shimmering blue, gold and green, Hemingway turns his attention to his guest. "Take him softly now," he croons. "Easy. Easy. Work him with style. That's it, up slowly with the rod, now reel in fast. Suave. With style. With style. Don't break his mouth." After the second fish at last flops onto the deck, Hemingway continues his reflections. "The right way to do it-style-is not just an idle concept," he says. "It is simply...
Visiting at Columbia University's Teachers College, stronghold of the educational tenet that corporal punishment leaves enduring bruises on a child's emotions, Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein spoke up in favor of using the rod. Admittedly no great shakes as a scholar,*Monty, who got an honorary doctor of laws degree from Columbia's President Grayson Kirk, gave a lecture on "Education for Leadership." Said he: "I'm for beating the bad boys-not the girls ... A boy cannot be expected to imagine . . . the misery and pain he has the power...
Calmly and cautiously, Fermi gave the necessary orders. Inch by inch, a neutron-absorbing control rod was drawn out of the reactor. The instruments watching its behavior began to click louder. Fermi would not be rushed. At 11:35 a.m. he casually remarked, "Let's go to lunch," and the reactor was shut down...
...mystery. Last week at a Manhattan meeting of the National Academy of Sciences Professor Arthur W. Pollister of Columbia University showed electron microscope pictures of a frog's egg cell. Magnified 24,000 diameters, the membrane of the nucleus looks solid, but poking through it are rod-shaped objects. Dr. Pollister suspects that they are chemical memos ordering the egg to develop into a tadpole rather than into a mouse or a whale...