Word: whizbang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the other 88% found a sorely needed traffic cop: the new American College Testing Program, brainchild of President E. F. Lindquist of the Measurement Research Center at the State University of Iowa. Using Lindquist's whizbang $1,000,000 scoring machines (6,000 answer sheets an hour), ACT is aimed at Midwestern colleges that have finally started using entrance exams and want to maintain uniform standards...
...telling the public what had gone wrong, and how and why, with the grandiose plan to inoculate tens of millions of children with Salk polio vaccine in 1955. For the most part, they confirmed what critics have suspected for a long time: it was a mistake to try the whizbang jump in little more than a year from laboratory production of the vaccine to manufacturing in tank-car volume. Many vital facts simply were not known when the leap to factory-scale production was made. In the light of this new knowledge, they implied, not only the methods of making...
Doctors put on a whizbang campaign. Among scores of groups backing them were the Baltimore Animal Aid Association, the Baltimore Beagle Club and the Lions Club. (Lions are seldom used in research.) At the polls, the people chose to put people ahead of dogs. The vote...