Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is a still bigger reason for Asahi's unique position: its reputation for integrity. Says Chairman of the Board Chu Hasebe: "Asahi is like a big tree. It stands alone and conspicuous, where any wind can find and blow against it. We have had our friends and our enemies, but we have never distorted the facts for either...
Despite its gloom over the Senate's fatal ratification" of the North Atlantic pact, the arch-isolationist Chicago Tribune (circ. 957,000) still found one ray of sunshine last week. Cried the Trib: there is now, in Washington, "an outpost of American principles . . . better provisioned, better sited and no less valiantly defended, we hope, than young George Washington's Fort Necessity."* What Trib Publisher Bertie McCormick meant was that he had just bought the Washington Times-Herald (circ. 278,000) from the seven "faithful employees" to whom his cousin, the late Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson, had bequeathed...
...agreed to sell the trust stock to McCormick for a reported $9,500,000-if McCormick would pay another $4,500,000 for the Times-Herald as well. On top of the $640,000 each of the seven faithful would get from the Times-Herald sale, Waldrop drove a still shrewder bargain. He got the colonel to agree to give each of them ten shares (worth at least $35,000 a share) of the McCormick-Patterson trust stock. Times-Herald staffers wondered whether there would be any personnel changes. Said Editor Waldrop: 'You'll have...
...rough, crude tomb in the suburbs of Athens. This insult to the carving saved it. When Greek archeologists dug them up, the two slabs could be fitted together almost as good as new. Even some of the brown paint on the slave's face and arms is still in place...
Science speaks of few absolutes. One of the few is absolute zero: -273.16 centigrade. At this temperature, the haphazard motion of the molecules (the action called heat) is wholly stilled. Close to this point of death-still cold, matter acts in strange ways. Liquid helium climbs out of containers; the electrical resistance of metals disappears. Because scientists see stranger phenomena the closer they get to absolute zero, experimenters like to imagine working their way down to the very bottom of the temperature scale...