Word: unthought
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...scientist may best preserve his probity. Solomon convinces his colleagues that they should all stay in the madhouse, because "we physicists have to take back our knowledge." However, in an ironic finale that negates their decision, the scientists discover that "anything that is once thought cannot be unthought...
...clothier: "We're on the verge of the greatest revolution the men's clothing industry has ever felt." Revolution was not quite the word, since man's basic garb will still be a pair of pants and a coat. But change there is-a major change unthought of as little as five years...
...airplanes from the assembly line. Distance, always measured in hours and not in miles, shrinks every year as faster and faster aircraft are built. At present there are no two places on earth more than 36 hours away from one another. People in a hurry utilize an industry unthought of twenty years ago. The country is crisscrossed with the routes of air lines. It is as easy to fly to Bermuda from New York as it is to drive to Boston, and it takes no more time...
...China's tiger hunt (TIME, March 17) screamed into new heights of shrill persecution, the quarry seemed less like vicious beasts of the jungle than treed and terrified house-cats. Chinese Communism has developed a new weapon to rout out it's bourgeois enemies, a weapon unthought of by less imaginative dictatorships: trial by sound-truck. Like baying hounds at the foot of a tree, Communism's sound-trucks last week planted themselves in the streets outside of tradesmen's shops and called their "crimes" to public attention in ear-splitting indictment. Panicked merchants, businessmen...
George Walker '51 finally came to the rescue of his drenched entry mates with the hitherto unthought of idea of turning off the sprinkler system from the wall valve...