Word: untillable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With these words ex-Governor Robert F. Bradford of Massachusetts last week fanned smoldering embers of discord in his church. The Christian Register, official publication of the American Unitarian Association, had bubbled with controversy over whether the insistently creedless Unitarians should at least bind themselves to a belief in God...
The world soon began to hear of him. Even Shaw admired the two authorized biographies George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works and Bernard Shaw: Playboy and Prophet ("I had only been uncollected odds and ends," said G.B.S. "Henderson collected me"). Henderson also wrote one of the first full-length...
When Adolphe Schloss got rich in the export business in Paris, he started buying Dutch and Flemish old masters. By the time he died in 1910 he had one of the world's largest and finest private collections of them. They hung in the gallery of his mansion on...
E.E. (for Edward Estlin) Cummings is a poet who is generally at odds with the world, and a painter who is at peace with nature. In the catalogue for his exhibition at a Manhattan gallery last week, Cummings expressed both attitudes in quick succession. ". . . Come let us adjust," he wrote...
The Viking's inner works are much like the V-2's: it burns alcohol and "lox" (liquid oxygen) in a single combustion chamber. Chief improvement is in the control mechanism. When a big rocket first takes off, the air is not moving past its fins fast enough...