Word: 20th
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...power, did San Marino catch up with World War II. But something else had been forgotten by San Marino. The stonecutter Marinus during his lifetime railed against wars to gain territory, on his deathbed gave his people a creed which has guided them from the Fourth Century until the 20th: "We do not want an inch of others' lands and we will not give up an inch...
Tree Rings. Dr. Andrew Ellicott Douglass, University of Arizona astronomer, is the founder of the 20th-century science of "dendrochronology"-telling time (in years) by means of tree rings. The thickness of the annual growth rings in trees is proportional to the year's rainfall. Thus the rings fall in patterns corresponding to the varying rainfall supplies during the life span of the tree. By matching patterns from logs of recent date to successively older & older specimens, Dr. Douglass carried a continuous record back several hundred years. Examining logs in the ruins of Indian pueblos built before Columbus...
...years ago the publicity men of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., who are proud of 20th-century civilization, decided to leave a memento of their civilization to the future. The memento was to be not just a written record, but a miniature museum, an assortment of characteristically 20th-century objects packed into a "Time Capsule." It just happened that the New York World's Fair was coming up, so they decided to address the capsule to savants of 6939-5,000 years after the Fair's first year...
...inconspicuous as an extra's check, the new 20th Century Silenced Camera purred away on a Hollywood sound stage last week in its first big-time assignment. Gesticulating in front of its highly sensitive lenses were such precious cinema properties as Alice Faye, Betty Grable and Jack Oakie, but 20th Century-Fox accountants in back offices well knew the unpublicized camera might prove to be the most valuable asset...
Chief accomplishments of the group to date include the finding of over 100 homes for refugee children, the establishment of a Harvard Hospital for Communicable Diseases in London, and the securing of a large number of recruits from Harvard graduates for the August 20th naval V-7 cruise of the S. S. Wyoming...