Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important arm of the Council is to be its "Military Staff Committee"-in effect, the world organization's General Staff. On this body, only the Big Five arc represented (by their respective Chiefs...
...recruits. Last year's pitching stars picked up where they left off. Cincinnati's Ed Heusser showed off his lowest earned-run average (2.38) in the National League by shutting out Pittsburgh; Detroit's Dizzy Trout won twice in six days, proving that his right arm was not burned out from overwork (he labored 352 innings last year, won 27 games); Trout's pitching partner, Lefty Hal Newhouser, lost-his first, came right back to beat Cleveland, 3-to-2 in 11 innings...
Once more she floated by. Toscanini's birch baton stopped in midair, his left arm was raised in a gesture of supplication. Then he dropped both arms to his sides, jutted his square chin forward, lowered his head. The orchestra gave...
...flying machine from over powering its human users, announced last week that they had found a solution to this little problem : a gadget which enables a pilot to control a heavy plane as easily as a child steers its bicycle. The device, called a "formation stick," has an arm rest and a pistol-gripped lever, which can be flicked in any direction by a finger touch. Electronics does the rest : the stick's motion is converted into an amplified electrical signal which operates the motors which operate the plane's control surfaces...
...varsity nine set out against the Naval, Air Base at Quonset, R. I., only to come back beaten 15 to 3 by an older, bigger, and more experienced Quonset squad. Although 13 of the fliers' runs were earned, fanlty fielding acted as a lead weight on the pitching arm of Jack Wallace...