Word: spurts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among science's most sacred relics are the standard "meter bars" of platinum-iridium that lie in an underground shrine at Sèvres, near Paris. Replacing a babel of medieval units, they originated in the spurt of innovation that followed the French Revolution. The newfangled meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance between the earth's equator and the North Pole, but difficulties of measurement made the exact length hard to determine. So the meter that was finally accepted (39.37 in. in length) was almost as arbitrary a unit as the ells, feet...
...fought it out evenly for 18 holes. Then Navyman Littler opened up a three-hole lead, and the gallery was about to concede him the match. But not Morey. Sighting his putter like a rifle, addressing his ball innumerable times before trying a shot, he put on a rousing spurt. He took the 28th hole to cut Littler's lead to two up, birdied the 34th and 35th to win two more and draw even with just one hole to go. But there his luck ran out. On the par-four last hole, Morey hit a trap...
...hospital beds (aside from federal institutions), reported the U.S. Public Health Service, but 161,000 are in buildings that should be scrapped. Still needed, despite a postwar spurt in hospital building under the Hill-Burton act: some 850,000 beds - 336,000 in mental hospitals. 219,000 in general hospitals. 262,000 for chronic-illness cases, 31,000 for TB patients...
Whatever happened to color TV? In 1951, to conserve scarce materials, the Government banned the manufacture of color TV sets. Last week Washington lifted the ban, and the TV industry was, theoretically, free to spurt ahead with color. Actually, it seemed to be just ambling along...
...Late Spurt Cinches...