Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third-year premedical student, whose candidate was Beryl Dickinson-Dash, 21-year-old daughter of a Montreal railway porter. Rapier posed Beryl before the snow sculpture decorating the campus for carnival week, then tacked the photographs all over the campus. He persuaded Montreal radio shows to get in a word for his candidate...
...Word from Space. The problem of "midcourse guidance" might be solved, according to some experts, by automatic celestial navigation, the missile watching selected stars and steering by them. The "terminal guidance" problem, i.e., landing it on the target, is tougher. No one has explained publicly how a "seeing eye" could recognize a target by any influences it sent out (heat, light, magnetism) which the enemy could not screen off or simulate. The missile could not send back the observations of its eye by television, like the television bombs of World War II, for human brains to analyze. Since the very...
...ended up on the wrong end of a $10,200 libel judgment against The Churchman. But in the late '305, his zeal, which was also sharply anti-Rome, began to find new, political channels of expression. The details of the trend were laid down in a 3,000-word document produced last week by Leon Birkhead to support his statement that The Churchman is "involved with the Communist line." The Birkhead document includes "a selected list" of 25 "Communist front or Communist organizations" to which Dr. Shipler lent his name between 1939 and 1949. Nine of them, says Birkhead...
...Definition. At week's end, white-haired Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, dug up a word for what was going on. The gaunt old (65) ex-professor, who had spent 23 years with the Brookings Institution, has long been a middle-of-the-road economist who sometimes seems to be trimming his square-rigged economic sails to the Administration's wind. He neatly dodged predicting either inflation or deflation. What the country was going through, he said, was "disinflation" (a five-dollar word for burp). It was quite a different thing from...
...When Geoffrey Crowther, editor of London's Economist, first coined the word (in LIFE last June 7), he gave it a different meaning: a state of the economy in which there is "more of a decline in prices than in wages...