Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under his direction, 270 other scholars, who had landed on WPA projects during the depression, began doing the same for A to Z. They churned through such works as the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Uncle Wiggily books, Malory's Morte d'Arthur and the Girl Scout Handbook. Last week, 15 years and 5,000,000 words later, the job was done...
Jingle, Jingle. Last week in Hiroshima 41-year-old Tomikazu Matsui had 14 buildings, 39 branch offices, 1,200 employees. Silver Bells' circulation had boomed to 1,200,000. He was composing his annual New Year's poem for his workers. "Oh," sang Poet Matsui, "the Silver Bells are ringing. Jingle, jingle, jingle, how they are ringing." But to Matsui, the jingling meant more than coins...
...Yorkers got a good idea last week of what scientists look like. Fifteen thousand of them converged on Manhattan for the 116th convention of the "Triple-A S" (American Association for the Advancement of Science). They were predominantly male, on the average surprisingly young (thirtyish), and anything but grave. They streamed from meeting to meeting, interrupted the speakers, held sub-conclaves in corners. Even a casual glance at the Triple-A S gave proof that U.S. science is on its toes, confident and properly concerned with running down facts...
...flying-saucer yarn was much too good to die young. Last week the U.S. was abuzz again with rumors about mysterious aircraft flitting around the sky. Latest rumor, presented as truth by the current issue of True magazine: "For the past 175 years the planet Earth has been under systematic close-range examination by living, intelligent observers from another planet." True's article set out to prove that the flying saucers carried interplanetary scouts who may have studied the earth's customs...
...proved genuine. And it disbanded its Project Saucer, a group with headquarters at Wright Field, Ohio, that had been investigating all flying-saucer reports. Apparently its continued existence encouraged the growth of rumors by suggesting that there might be something back of them, after all. It was announced last week that Project Saucer's files including pictures (none of them genuine flying saucers) would be placed on public exhibition in the Pentagon. From now on, said the Air Force, its only similar activity would be the conventional military watch for unidentified flying objects which might enter...