Word: arrayed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...start it, Hecht formed Parents Institute Inc., and got a $325,000 grant from the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial Fund by agreeing to assign control of his company to four universities (Yale, Columbia, Iowa and Minnesota). The odd partnership gave canny Publisher Hecht academic alliances which brought an impressive array of famous educators to Parents' masthead as "advisory editors." It also brought the schools a golden flow of income from Parents and a handful of new magazines. By 1949, when Publisher Hecht finally bought up control of Parents Institute, the colleges had already taken out substantial profits...
Toward Red Beach. The dirty yellow waters of Inchon harbor bore a tremendous array of boats. As far as the eye could see there were LSVPs in groups of five making endless circles before the great grey assault ships. Ahead were the cruisers, destroyers and rocket ships. Overhead, Navy and Marine planes streaked for targets ashore. The big guns boomed like tremendous bass drums. The smaller 40-mm. guns hammered away with the incessant roll of snare drums...
...length of the hairs appeared to be close to four microns or multiples thereof. It is noteworthy that four microns is one-half the wave length of eight microns, which is well within the emission band of the female." Duane & Tyler suggest: "The male . . . moth has a tuned antenna array which is his receptor for locating the female...
Whitman took his readers on a mouthwatering tour of the Grand Street market: "What an array of rich, red sirloins, luscious steaks, delicate and tender joints . . ." At Hudson & Ottingnon's gym, he found a sweaty figure "laboring up a smooth pole with all the eagerness of a man struggling for life," and commended the practice to dyspeptic readers. At a temperance meeting, he noted with amusement a sign reading BEWARE THE FIRST GLASS.** Whitman, a nondenominational Christian, told how he explained the Crucifixion, by signs, to a deaf-mute child: "It was very singular . . . that the mind of this...
...week the Juneau had been away, the little (formerly five officers and less than 100 men) U.S. naval base had become headquarters for a U.N. task force. Ringed by soft green mountains, the turquoise harbor was a colorful array of British, Australian and American flags. Little whaleboats and captain's gigs raced madly back & forth hauling the brass on formal calls, which "are well in order," the British said, "since this is really not a war after all." At the officers' club Royal Marines turned out each night in red cummerbunds and dinner jackets. The Americans dressed...