Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...15th time in as many years, Fred Allen announced last week that he was quitting radio. The satchel-eyed comic told New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson: "I'm going to sit around and think, and see what's going to happen with television." And he "may write. I have four chances to do books...
Undiscouraged, Dr. Bowen points out that the 100-inch telescope on Mt. Wilson did not work acceptably for a year and a half. He predicts that the 200-inch will eventually be fixed. The first step will be the installation of a set of small fans to keep the temperature more uniform around the mirror. The mirror's outer edge may also be insulated with aluminum foil to make it respond more slowly to temperature changes...
...Union since 1907 and short-time Senator from Tennessee (1937-38); of a digestive disorder; in Pressmen's Home (a development he built for needy union members), Tenn. Self-educated (he could neither read nor write at 15), Berry became a key labor adviser in the Wilson and Roosevelt administrations, missed the Democratic vice-presidential nomination in 1924 by three votes...
...that spares less than two to Leo Tolstoy, one column to V. I. Lenin and less than one to James Joyce, twelve lines to Scott Fitzgerald, 13 to André Gide, five to James Thurber, one to Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and nothing at all to Arnold Toynbee, Edmund Wilson and the "Big Three" of psychology (Freud, Jung, Adler), whose words have become only-too-painfully"familiar...
...Laura Wilson's successful one-handed push shot from a few feet short of the half court line brought cheers from the spectators and temporarily put the juniors back in the game, but the enthusiasm was short-lived. The senior's lead continually increased...