Word: majority
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sensational yarn, complete with arrogant Russians, secret papers, and hints of dark doings in high places. The man who told it was a bony-faced Manhattan businessman named George Racey Jordan, 51, wartime major in the U.S. Army Air Forces. Jordan and his story were triumphantly presented to a nationwide radio audience last week by Radiorator Fulton Lewis...
...Flying Neutrons." He found, said Jordan, "a lot of blueprints and maps and engineering drawings and scientific data" labeled "Oak Ridge, Manhattan Engineering District." Major Jordan had never heard of the Manhattan Project, but he noted the words down. He inspected a blueprint and noted that it read: "Walls five feet thick of lead and water to control flying neutrons." He also found, he said, a note on White House stationery, "which impressed me because it had the name of Harry Hopkins printed in the upper left-hand corner. I jotted down part of the message. It said...
...Aztec's 41 passengers escaped from the white-hot pyre. When the wreckage had cooled, an American Airlines ground crewman stood sobbing as he kept count, in a little black notebook, of the bodies carried from the blackened metal. Total: 28. Three days later the heads of eleven major U.S. airlines were feted in Chicago at a luncheon (scheduled long before the crash) to honor commercial aviation's record for safety. Their statistics proved that IQ49, even including the Dallas crash, could still be one of the scheduled airlines' safest years, with 1.2 deaths per 100 million...
...University's food problem started very early in fact it was the school's first problem and quickly developed into a major crisis. The Pilgrim Fathers, eager for as many parental restrictions as possible, decreed that all students must eat at a common table, an insistence which plagued administrators for the next 200 years. With Mr. Nathaniel Eaton as the school's entire faculty, students ate in his home. He was charged with serving mostly "porrige and pudding, and that very homely ... without butter or suet." The students maintained they received "hasty pudding with goat's dung...
...This is the third in a series of editorials discussing Dean's Office and Council proposals for rules relating to undergraduate activities. Tuesday's editorial described the tremendous increase that has taken place since the thirties in Dean's Office regulation of student activities and found four major causes for this increase: 1) the cold war and consequent political tensions, discussed in yesterday's editorial, 2) growing concern over organizational bad debts, and 3) Increased sensitiveness about public relations, discussed today, 4) a trend towards closer Harvard-Radcliffe relations which the Dean's Office considers extremely unfortunate, to be taken...