Word: zeus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still strode the Senatorial armies (TIME, Sept. 30 et ante). But from the heavens on the Republican side came a portentous rumbling. Battle between the lines ceased as the Republican chieftains harkened to awful words from the White House, even as the chieftains at Troy used to attend whenever Zeus spoke...
Insurgent as Zeus's own thunder, up at once arose Senator Borah, freebooting generalissimo, to challenge the Voice to continue. Though this was a war he talked of a plowshare, to which the Voice, he said, had put its hand and whence it could not now turn away. ''I ask from the floor of the Senate that the President advise this body . . . whether he approves of the industrial schedules in this bill...
...upward pace grew slower and slower. At 37,000 ft. frost formed upon his goggles. At about that time another airplane arrived?too late?at the airfield below, bringing another naval flier with a pair of electrically heated goggles that will not frost. The bringer of the goggles was Zeus,* brother of Apollo Soucek, coming from the Philadelphia naval aircraft factory...
From Medford, Okla., to Washington, sped a telegram of congratulation sent by John, father of Zeus and Apollo Soucek...
...Zeus of all those Olympians is of course Henry Fairfield Osborn, 71, president of the American Association. That presidency is the highest honor that U. S. and Canadian scientists can give a colleague. Yet its tenure is for only one year and a man must have a permanent post. What such post any one scientist considers best is hard to indicate. Generally the secretaryship of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington is best esteemed. To that secretaryship the Institution elected Dr. Osborn in 1906, upon the death of Samuel Pierpont Langley. Dr. Osborn declined. He preferred to stay on as assistant...