Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Male Swarming. Most mosquitoes are less direct. Their mating habits center around a curious custom that scientists call "swarming." Hundreds of males gather 'in a dim-lit space, whirling around & around one another, emitting a low hum. This, according to one theory, excites and attracts the females. Certainly any female that comes near the swarming males is never the same again. Some observers claim to have seen the same female join the same swarm repeatedly...
...weather; it was what to do with the crop. There was no place to store it. Most of the nation's bins and elevators were still bulging with last year's wheat. The situation in Texas was typical: there was enough storage space to hold around 140 million bushels, but three-fifths of it was already filled with 1948 wheat and grain sorghums. That meant there was only room for this year's first 55 million bushels, not even half the expected Texas harvest. The farmers feared that the hindmost half might go to the devil...
...Space Operas & Utopia. The four founding fathers of "science fiction" are generally acknowledged to be Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H. G. Wells. In the U.S., Will F. Jenkins, a 27-year veteran, who also writes under the pen name of Murray Leinster, is regarded as the dean of writers in the field. Best of the lot, according to expert editors, are Robert Heinlein and A. E. van Vogt...
Most of the contemporary masters have one point in common: their stories are laid in the future. Interplanetary flights are routine, as are the "space operas" in which heroes chase villains through dazzling stretches of the galaxy. One of the oldest forms of science fiction is the "Utopia story," in which a coherent history of an ideal world is sketched out. A popular form is the "prophecy story," in which the consequences of man's inventive ingenuity in, say, rocket ships, are thought out. Subject matter ranges from the zoology of other planets to apocalyptic portraits of the world...
Graduate Bowdoin prizes went to Henri Dorra 1G, for his "The Power of Line: Space and Emotion in the Works of the "Thanatos' Painter in Relation to the Evolution of Greek Drawing"; and to Eric P. Hamp 2G for "The Layman Looks at Language." Each receives...