Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Ireland in his little coracle the missionary-saint, Columba, sailed to the isle of lona in the Inner Hebrides, off Scotland's west coast. There, in 563 A.D., on lona's misty, rainy four square miles, he established a base in the great Celtic Christianizing that swept eastward from Ireland to Britain, across to the Continent - and as far south as Vienna...
Considered by his colleagues an outstanding authority in the field of atomic energy, Wilson is presently engaged in developing the massive new University cyclotron that will be assembled near Oxford and Everett Streets sometime this spring. Cement-pouring operations on the three-foot concrete base that will support the atom-smasher will be speeded up by the recent break in a cold spell that had frozen the site...
Nevertheless some hope remained that the move would spur the nationalists into giving their government a broad base of "liberal" elements as urged by Marshall upon his return this month to become Secretary of State...
Spending in the Arctic. After listing savings, Minister Claxton got around to what the armed forces would retain. They will keep in operation the Northwest Staging Route (a series of airfields along the Alaska Highway) and the Churchill air base, and they will continue to expand the system of weather stations in the Arctic. Canada will cooperate closely with the U.S. in operating the stations...
...base is a building housing rooms showing the primitive Spanish, the Mexican and English periods of Texas, for the English worked very hard, if not to annex it, at least to control it, as shall we say, she now controls the United States...