Word: whirling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victorious hosts swept all four pole places and the first three hammer throws. Dick Pflster won the discus with a 129 feet 1 inch whirl, and took third in the shot with a put less than four inches behind John Grigas of Holy Cross...
...concert was a benefit for an organization called Artists in Need, Inc., which helps poor Austrian exiles. Among the conductors who put 65 New York Philharmonikers through a waltzy whirl were Ralph Benatzky (White Horse Inn), Robert Stolz (Two Hearts, Spring Parade in the movies) and a courtesy-Viennese, Jaromir Weinberger, famed Czech polka-&-fugue man (Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer, Variations and Fugue on Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree...
Matter and energy are manifestations of the same thing: matter is energy "frozen" into electric particles. These whirl in energy systems called atoms, which in turn form larger energy systems called molecules. These form dynamic energy systems called cells, which we refer to as "alive." Thus the difference between "dead" atoms and "living" cells is not of ultimate nature but of complexity. Man is an aggregate of 1,000 billion cells, each of them an individual, self-centred organism, which work together by means of chemical signals and the nervous system. This final complexity, "living" man, evolved from nonlife...
...clay country. For cinemaddicts who adore child actresses, Virginia makes the most of four-year-old Carolyn Lee. After Honeymoon in Bali (also with Carroll & MacMurray) Carolyn's steel executive father took her home to Martins Ferry, Ohio, was persuaded by Director Griffith to give her another whirl in pictures. But the real news in Virginia's cast is 24-year-old Stirling Hayden, who had never acted in anything before-not even a Sunday School pageant-when Director Griffith gave him his fat part in Virginia...
Soon the noble savage's life was a whirl of London parties as drawing-room doors flew open. Omai dressed in the height of fashion. Baffling British etiquette held no mysteries for him. He was presented to George III. Sir Nathaniel Dance and Sir Joshua Reynolds (see cut) painted his portrait. His manners were preferred to those of Mr. Philip Stanhope (the bastard boy on whom Chesterfield lavished his famed letters of advice on how to behave: "Remember the Graces, the Graces, the Graces"). Only ungracious, hardheaded Sam Johnson growled to Boswell: "Don't cant about in defense...