Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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University officials jittered in alarm. It was bad enough to have a political controversy intruded into the election. But to make matters worse, it was the first time since 1847, when Queen Victoria's beloved Prince Albert won in a squeak over the popular Earl of Powis, that the chancellorship had ever been contested...
...sense "curved," and its curvature and therefore its "size" depend on the amount of matter within it. If more matter were added, space would have to stretch, carrying the galaxies with it. Why not, asked Bondi and Gold, figure out how much matter would have to be added to make the galaxies recede at the observed rate? The answer, dragged from thickets of mathematics, came out very simple. One atom of hydrogen, they calculated, must be added to each quart of space every billion years...
Last week Sun Life delivered its own counterblow. To make its stock harder to grab, the officers split the shares 10-for-1. Said a company spokesman: "I think we've stopped the raid." But it already looked as if the Aliens might cash in on their latest "special situation." To keep the loyalty of its other stockholders, jittery Sun Life last week hinted that the $2 dividend rate on the split stock would soon be boosted to $3 a share. If so, Stockholder Allen would get the raise, along with the rest...
...from there to a superb review of William Faulkner's latest novel and the fairest, most graceful estimate yet of Fellow Critic Van Wyck Brooks's work. Sometimes his literary snobbishness leads Wilson into his most readable and most amusing writing. "Ambushing a Best-Seller" will make readers of the trashier kinds of historical novels blush for themselves and the authors who provide their fare; "What Became of Louis Bromfield" is fair criticism of a popular writer, but cruel enough to double as a pitiless obituary...
...that difficult stage when adult independence beckons but family ties still bind. At 23, Sally is the sort of girl people call "delightfully feminine," though they wonder why she doesn't marry. Marjorie, 17, shows more troubling symptoms: a vague intellectual restlessness combined with a fondness for make-believe play with her six-year-old brother Paul...