Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Ordnance Department wanted a theme song; so did the Treasury Department. Both asked Composer Irving Berlin to write them one. Mr. Berlin obliged, and the songs-Arms for the Love of America and Any Bonds Today?-were launched last week on Arsenal Day (June 10). At the War College in Washington, Singer Barry Wood baritoned...
Carl Edward Johansson, working in a Swedish arsenal, cracked the accurate-measurement nut in the 1890s. He knew there was nothing so accurate in the hands of a toolmaker as a simple block of steel. Assuming that the average shop needed measurements for every ten-thousandth of an inch from 1/10 of an inch to 12 inches, a complete set of block gauges would number well over 100,000 pieces. But he found that every one of these measurements could be obtained by a combination of only 81 pieces, the smallest being 1/10 of an inch, the largest four inches...
This book cannot fail to be disconcerting to all isolationists, and provides an arsenal of historical munition in favor of the interventionist point of view. Brief though it is, "Against This Torrent" is a forceful argument against "the wave of the future." As a refreshing departure from the recent flood of dollar books that are all form and no substance, this volume should be read by everyone who is interested in the future of our nation...
Rarer is the separate starring vehicle which Shaw devised for himself. This is an eight-minute prologue in which the wily, bewhiskered old Celt appears on the screen to reveal that while the rest of the democratic world has been sleeping, he has been building his own arsenal of democracy. Impudent, goading, compassionate, it is a masterful bit of acting, unsurpassed by the performances which follow. Excerpts...
Assorting that Professor Brinton's "arsenal" was unreliable, Frederick Mork, professor of History, declared that present conditions may be so different from these in the past that "they may be deceptive--they may make our conclusions wrong even more often than right." History's positive value, Professor Merk said, is that it tends to build up character and individuality in the reader...