Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...require more work and research than the stories they hang from, and it is a rare footnote that doesn't produce some interesting and unexpected result. For instance, Managing Editor T. S. Matthews dropped a footnote - definitely on the learned side - from a Science story about the chimney swift. The footnote was a stanza from a poem about a curlew, by W. B. Yeats. A researcher who was dispatched to the public library to find and check the verse, being in no mood to go through all of Yeats' works, finally telephoned the English department of Columbia University...
...closing the article, Professor Selekman, in a message to executives, contends that the industrialist must remain steady to allow the country to catch up with the swift changes in industrial relations...
...stroller; he likes to roam about the Vienna Woods, from where he can get a look at the city as a whole-at the neat patterns of villas in the U.S. zone, at the sooty, rambling factories in the Russian zone, and at the Danube that flows, a grey, swift dividing line, between...
...returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them...
...market in meat has cut deep into stocks of insulin, adrenaline, liver concentrates, pituitary extracts and other vital drugs. Obvious reason: the behind-the-barn slaughterers throw away the organs and glands normally sold by regular packers to drug makers. Sample results: 1) a Schering Corp. agent combed Armour, Swift, Cudahy and Wilson for 200 lbs. of sheep pituitary, found just 22 lbs.; 2) American Home Products Corp., needing 1,000 lbs. of pancreas monthly, has been able to buy only 700 lbs. all year. Shortages are just short of dangerous...