Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conservative crowd than their fellow dreamers across the sea, had their hair raised last week when they read, in the latest B. I. S. Journal, an article entitled "The Payload on the Lunar Trip." This juicily detailed the equipment to be taken on the first lunar voyage, sounded as though the takeoff were scheduled for next week. Excerpts...
...water will be taken in the combined form of hydrogen peroxide, one molecule of which can be very readily split up into one molecule of water and half a molecule of oxygen. . . . Water will of course be the basis of all beverages, chief amongst which will be cocoa, though a small amount of coffee might be necessary as a stimulant for navigators falling asleep over their interminable calculations. It is debatable whether some alcoholic beverage should be permitted to celebrate the landing on the moon but there will in any case be a small amount in the medicine chest...
...Though the Barnes-de Mazia book (their fourth in collaboration)† was not quite on the dot to celebrate the centenary of Paul Cezanne's birth (Jan. 19, 1839), it clarified considerably the reasons for celebration...
British censorship taboos ridiculing any living person on the stage. Ridiculing the King and Queen would strike most Britishers as unthinkable. Yet London is at present laughing its head off at a play whose characters, though not actually named, unmistakably include King George, Queen Elizabeth, Chamberlain, Hitler, Mussolini and the "Cliveden...
...Though no scientist, Everson recognized genius when he heard his gangling new employe's television theory. He went to see two officers of San Francisco's Crocker First National Bank, Jesse B. McCargar and the late James J. Fagan. Crusty Banker Fagan remarked: "Well, that is a damn fool idea but someone ought to put money into it and someone that can afford to lose it." He and McCargar put up an initial $25,000. The year...