Word: karl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when I am fishing," and generations of fishermen have put it down as the kind of common sense that only an idiot would disagree with. Fishermen, it appeared last week, had not taken into account the implacable curiosity of science. In San Francisco, University of Michigan Zoologist Karl Lagler reported a 66-day fishing experiment on a quiet Livingston County, Mich, lake (980 man-hours, 1,561 fish). Every other day a colleague buzzed the experimenters in a noisy outboard, but the racket never hurt the catch. Zoologist Lagler's conclusion: a hungry fish doesn't mind noise...
...allowed to stay on as chairman even in the Republican-controlled 80th Congress. Half a dozen others rose to add their voices in praise of Byrd: Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry (". . . a great chairman ... a great work . . ."); Tennessee's ancient, irascible Kenneth Mc-Kellar; South Dakota's Republican Karl Mundt, who couldn't think of anyone in public life who "has contributed more to the general welfare"; even such an evenhanded Republican moderate as New Hampshire's Charles Tobey...
...baby gorilla has learned to utter three word-like sounds, Karl S. Lashley, research professor of Neuropsychology, disclosed yesterday...
...Karl Marx & Movie Stars. First guiding spirit of the Mission de Paris was the late Abbe Henri Godin, a shy, intense parish priest who decided that a pastor was virtually helpless in reaching those who did not come to church. He proposed that the church set up a mission to work among Frenchmen with the same dedicated zeal that sends missionaries to spend their lives in hardship in heathen lands. Paris' late Cardinal Suhard and the French archbishops set up the Mission de France in 1941; the Mission de Paris was founded...
...reach the first objective, Mission students concentrate on the study of the Bible. For the second, they are encouraged to occupy themselves also with the things of the world. In their crowded dormitories are pin-up pictures of movie stars and sports figures; their bookshelves contain volumes by Karl Marx, A. J. Cronin, Saint-Exupery, and Communist Poets Louis Aragon and Paul Eluard. From the chapel come the strains of Old Folks at Home and Negro spirituals with new French words. Such music is considered to be "in touch with the mass suffering of our times. It is full...