Word: titanically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the past six months, the watch over Gouzenko became almost totally unworkable. With his new book, The Fall of a Titan, about to be published, the publicity-conscious author began to set up interviews and to pose for photos wearing a pillowcase mask. Usually he slipped away to the interviews, giving the Mount ies no opportunity to screen his visitors. Said a government official: "Each guy he met could have been Malenkov himself for all we knew...
...Tiny Titan. The first commercial transistor powerful enough to replace vacuum tubes in control devices for industrial machines was announced by Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. The size of a thimble, it is 100 times more powerful than any transistor yet available, said Honeywell, can handle 20 watts of current...
...biography (Until Victory: Horace Mann and Mary Peabody; Little, Brown; $5), Mrs. Louise Hall Tharp is too close to the trees of worshipfulrress to see clearly the forest of Mann's contribution. But her book is worth reading, if only as a reminder that Horace Mann was a titan in the field of educational statesmanship...
Reuther's obvious urge to power and his lack of personal warmth sometimes worry his admirers, one of whom has remarked nervously on the U.A.W. president's resemblance to the stereotype titan of industry. Like many a business tycoon, he displays a single-minded devotion to work, which often keeps him away from his wife and two daughters for days at a time. No sooner had he won full dominance over the U.A.W. in 1947, than the nonsmoking, nondrinking Reuther spelled out the new order to his associates. "Now," said he, "there'll be no more...
...other proof is being sought by studying Titan (one of the satellites of Saturn), which is somewhat bigger than the moon. Titan is too cold for life as the earth knows it, but it has an atmosphere containing much methane. Chemist Urey hopes to find that sunlight is slowly making organic compounds out of this simple gas. If Titan were warmer and bigger the process might already have clothed it with oxygen-and life...