Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bloody footsteps of Dzerzhinsky. Some time ago a former Communist explained: "The task of the Soviet government is to create a new man with a new 'morale,' according to which it will be as easy to kill on the party's orders as to drink a glass of water." Beria, who was under 20 when the revolution broke, is that...
...There a kindly senior customs officer chalked my bags and remarked that I had a beautiful day for flying. I agreed, and added that I hadn't expected to see Finland looking so lovely this early in the year. He looked around through the big glass window for a moment, then half smiled and said: "Oh, it's a nice country! But too small...
...even the frogs used in biology laboratories had jumped from 72? to $2.25 a dozen. The biggest expenses: more buildings and higher faculty salaries. The University of Washington has started a $20 million building program-to complete the upper campus in "collegiate Gothic," the lower campus in modernistic glass-&-brick. Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is building a functional $15 million Illinois Institute of Technology in a tumbledown neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. CalTech needs $5,000,000 just to maintain the new telescope on Palomar Mountain...
...first two, soon to be published by McGraw-Hill Book Co., will deal with medical aspects of the bomb research. The series will eventually cover everything from the technology of the voracious gas, fluorine (which gnaws holes in glass and makes bricks burn), to leak detectors for gas-tight rooms and compartments. The only information left out: the military supersecrets directly connected with the bomb and its atomic relatives...
...boost in price. And Radio Corp. of America told of a much greater improvement to come (probably by year's end). It has developed a 16-in. steel cathode-ray tube (the basic part of a television set) which can be mass-produced to replace glass tubes now in use, thus lowering the costs of some sets...