Word: zoom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bertha and her mother home to Holland. The whole country was agog over their arrival. There were shouts of welcome, chants of "Bertha," government greeters, hard-pressing cameramen and reporters. Through it all, the jungle girl kept a sullen look. At the Hertoghs' festive home town, Bergen op Zoom, Bertha met her brothers & sisters. After a bit, two of her sisters persuaded her to come with them on a balcony and see the townspeople below. She did so. As Bergen op Zoom cheered, Bertha's sullenness gave way to a smile...
...Aiken, S.C. and Augusta, Ga. set to counting the blessings that would flow when upwards of 25,000 employees went, to work at the giant H-bomb plant. Aiken, which has a population of 7,000 and has been a resort for the wealthy since the 1880s, expected to zoom to a bustling town of 12,000, and already last week, real-estate prices had started to spiral. At Augusta, Ga. (pop. 70,000), the chamber of commerce predicted that the general influx of population and prosperity would be equivalent to moving 100 large industries into the region...
...matter how interesting planets may be as niches for intelligent life, they are mere dust specks on the cosmological scalf. Hoyle and his Cambridge theorists are more concerned with the origin of the stuff out of which the galaxies were formed. When they consider such matters, they zoom to levels of mathematics where few can follow...
...least ?1,000,000 a year. Divorce cases are included in the scope of the new law. Some critics of the plan fear that Britain's divorce rate, which rose from less than two per 10,000 population in 1939 to 13 per 10,000 in 1947,* will zoom still higher...
...white-haired old party named Jack Alonzo Goldie got into a Chinese robe at Rockport, Mass. last week, put a black band around his head and announced that 1) he was The Zoom, and 2) that an H-bomb was going to blow the world up on April 7, 1954. He asked one & all to become Zoomites, and join him in burrowing underground. Father Divine took a different attitude. He claimed that he was responsible for the bomb, through some kind of telepathic influence on President Truman, and that it was a fine thing. His exact words: "Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful...