Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here,' " said the agent, gesturing carelessly at a heap of stones that might once have been a fireplace. " 'Mind your head as we make the turn,' " he added, entering a void: " 'I want you to see the living room.' " At once, a Revolutionary wooden beam disengaged itself. Mr. Blandings staggered under the blow...
...test the theory, scientists exposed typical organic compounds (such as fatty acids) to the beam of a cyclotron. Sure enough, they got a small yield of hydrocarbon. The next step will be to extract organic substances from the earth of a potential oil pool, and see if a cyclotron beam can turn it into petroleum...
...Bemelmans. Evelyn Waugh, Henry Miller and Oliver St. John Gogarty, is now alone in the once-crowded field that held Vanity Fair, Spur, Horse & Horsemen, Country Life and the Sportsman. It has survived by getting under Hearst's wing, and by getting back on the old Home Journal beam. "We found out," says Harry Bull, "that sportsmen can't read...
...Kierkegaard might as well be that of a new movie star or a kind of smorgasbord. Chief reasons: 1) only in the last decade have most of his works been translated from Danish into English†; 2) his ironical, passionate, introverted philosophy of religion is off beam for positivist, social-minded Americans; 3) his thought is tough going...
...probably atomic energy. Chief trouble with earlier death rays was that no known source of radiation was strong enough to kill at a distance. But atom bombs do kill by radiation, mostly heat and gamma rays. If a method is developed to concentrate nuclear radiations into a narrow beam, death rays may be available to enliven World...