Word: wrench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spirit of St. Louis, a collection of dresses worn by former First Ladies; a collection of fleas from G.I.s in Korea. Last year, if there had been room, the Smithsonian staff could have displayed 607,354 new acquisitions, including a couple of Japanese eels, an adjustable, double-ended wrench (circa 1856), 18 boxes of bricks from the White House renovation, one astral lamp (complete with glass shade fitted for electric light), a phanerogam, the original model of Emmons' "Pelvi-phore," a keyed Hungarian táragotó, the uniform worn by a student nurse at Passaic, N.J. General Hospital...
Then Chuck Edwards had to pass up the Maryland game because of a charley-horse which he is still nursing, and Pete Palches took over for him. Palches proceeded to wrench his knee and won't play now for three weeks. John Law and Hank Rate finished out the Maryland game, alternating in the second midfield...
...chemist was not necessarily a handicap for a Harvard president. James Bryant Conant was soon just as much at home presiding over the Harvard Corporation as he had ever been puttering about his laboratory. A mild-mannered Yankee, with a cracker-barrel wit, he may have been quite a wrench from such grands seigneurs as Charles Eliot and A. Lawrence Lowell. But by this week, as he boarded his plane for Germany to begin his job as U.S. High Commissioner (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), professors and teachers across the country knew that James Conant had left his own indelible mark...
...Farewell Wrench...
...However, in one of his statements-"I could have clotted things up so [Eisenhower] wouldn't get straightened out for a year" [TIME, Jan. 19]-he reveals himself in his true dimensions. Does he actually believe that he is to be congratulated for magnanimously not throwing a wrench into the workings of the most powerful country of the free world? How could he gloat over not using the power which his fellow citizens entrusted to him in 1948 to jeopardize the overall security of the nation? On this basis, everyone who is not a criminal should receive a medal...