Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around him on the long, flat station platform was a group of bright young girls and athletic men in red blazers. Bursting with good cheer, they whisked Alf and his friends over green fields to a cluster of glass-sided buildings topped by a huge white tower bearing the word "Butlin's" in four-foot letters. All around the tower were ranks of brightly colored, stucco cottages ("chalets") stretching down...
Lescaze had recently interviewed eleven graduating students of Princeton's own School of Architecture, gleefully reported that "Not one of them had a kind word to say for their Alma Mater's newest building. How could they? They had been taught to strive for honest architectural solutions and yet at the same time their own university had been building a library with a Gothic mask. Talking to them I had the feeling that Princeton's library may well turn out to be the last example of our colleges' long devotion to a mistaken loyalty...
...himself much impressed by the Reformed Church's refusal to join with the Hungarian Roman Catholics against the present Communist-controlled government. The Reformed Church, wrote Earth approvingly, was holding aloof from both East and West; instead of concerning itself with politics, it was concentrating on formulating the Word of God in fresh terms...
Earth's reply may spark many a controversy among Christians. He holds that the church does not act according to eternal and abiding principles but by the authority of the Word of God, which may change according to times and conditions. The situation in 1948, he contends, is not the same as it was in 1933. Hitler's and Stalin's regimes may both be totalitarian. But what is important is the special temptation Hitlerism was to the church in prewar days, when many prominent people were extremely friendly to the Nazis. Thus, says Earth...
...Designed by Britain's Air Commodore Frank Whittle,* it developed only 850 Ibs. of propulsive thrust. Now engines with 5,000 Ibs. of thrust are available, and soon there will be bruisers with 8,000-10.000 Ibs. No one thinks that even these will be the last word...