Word: assigned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...researches we outlined required the additional expenditure of several hundred thousand rubles. I went to Sergo Ordzhonikidze, who was chairman of the Supreme Economic Council, put the matter before him, and in ten minutes left his office with an order signed by him to assign the sum I had requested to the Institute. Once started, we have continued work on the atomic nucleus for 15 years as an essential part of our plan...
...asks the FCC to assign it three channels for frequency modulation (FM) broadcasting. On these, three types of programs would be broadcast: 1) uninterrupted classical music; 2) continuous popular music; 3) shopping news and educational programs. Subscribers would pay 5? a day ($18.25 per year) to listen. Nonsubscribers would be kept from listening by a "pig squeal" which would be broadcast along with the programs, "jamming" all sets but those of the Benton subscribers, whose radios would tune out this squeal by a special apparatus. Benton proposes to let other broadcasters use the attachment for a small royalty...
...work was not brought to them...." Rescue, she says, should begin the minute danger is over, or there will be a "serious psychic lesion which may result in total paralysis of the will." The trick is "never give food that is too strong for the weak-tea capacity," never assign a task at which the injured may fail-they may give up altogether. The Army's new rehabilitation program with its graduated exercises (TIME, Nov. 15, 1943) works on this principle. Betsey Barton's own first calisthenics were breathing and moving her abdominal muscles. Her first occupation...
...weathered old sea eagle had been retired eight years. He told the Admiralty: "I want to die on a battlefield-not in bed." Said the Admiralty: "Too old." Eventually he was given an assignment deemed suitable for a superannuated sailor-as liaison officer to the Mediterranean commander Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham. Sir Walter, still alarmed by the risk of dying in bed, got Cunningham to assign him to the Commandos, to train Commando-men in handling small boats...
...illiterates will be registered. Home town authorities will assign each literate to his pupil. The Government will distribute ten million primers. A check-up will be made one year later...