Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...time has come," said the New York State Board of Regents last week, "when we as a nation must request some form of universal national service from all our young men and women . . ." To clear the way for general inductions at 18, the top policy body of New York's public school system recommended that high schools pack their standard four-year courses into three. Suggested expedients: wider use of summer classes and, "in some instances," heavier study loads during regular semesters...
...have the right to be a member of the Communist Party," continued Kiendl, "but he has no constitutional right to be at the same time a teacher in our public schools ... If and when academic freedom is relied on to permit the existence of a clear and present danger of the injection into youthful minds of any subversive doctrine, it is no longer academic freedom, but unrestrained academic license...
Large nuclear reactors need vast quantities of cooling water, and it must be water of a very special sort. The plutonium plant at Hanford, Wash. was built there because of the Columbia River, but Columbia water did not prove entirely satisfactory. Though clear and cold and plentiful, it contains a large amount of dissolved solids, some of which become radioactive when they are carried through the reactors...
...Like Toothpaste. As the air rushed out of the cabin, the doomed dummy rose from its seat, shot toward the window and was forced through it like toothpaste extruded from a tube. When the pressure simulated an altitude of 40,000 ft., the dummy shot clear across the room, its legs and its arms detached...
...sentimentality. Technically, he was an Impressionist. Like Flaubert, Chekhov and James, he aimed for "the immediate sense of life, not the removed report." He himself never achieved that summit of craft where art appears to be artless. His oddly arresting similes and metaphors jut up like boulders deflecting the clear stream of his narratives. Many a sentence of Crane's is beaded with the sweat that went into its construction. Despite these deficiencies, his pages twang with an intense, nervous conviction of actuality...