Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place the Crimson in the midst of this scramble is something like the entrancing juvenile sport of pinning the tail on the donkey. Thus far, there have been few comparative scores on which to base predictions, and Saturday night's Cornell game will be an excellent start. It seems safe to assume that the Varsity has too much strength for Yale and Columbia, but the other clubs in the league should provide stiffer competition. Harvard could conceivably finish anywhere from first to fifth, but they will have to play consistently high grade basketball to push Penn and Cornell...
Tush, tush, said a bland U.S. State Department spokesman next day, there was no ultimatum; the Russians were entirely within their rights. Later, Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson admitted that the State Department had had no official communication from Dairen on which to base these statements...
...definite, constructive and progressive program to our Republican Party." He would open an office in Washington; a Stassen-for-President club was already raising funds. His first goal was set: "To move the Republican Party along the path of true liberalism." All other G.O.P. hopefuls were caught off base...
Just before noon one day last week a B-29 labored into the skies over California's Muroc Army Air Base. To its duralumin bosom it clutched a precious burden: the Bell Aircraft Corp.'s rocket-propelled XS-1, a plane designed to fly more than 1,000 miles an hour. At 27,000 feet, the stub-winged, orange-colored XS-1 was released to begin its first power flight. It dropped heavily-300, 600, 800 feet. Then the rocket engine in its tail belched flame and it spurted ahead...
...suggests-expanding the testimony he had already given before the congressional Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee-was the banner day for U.S. naval stupidity. Eight years before, in 1933, elaborate Pacific maneuvers known as Fleet Problem 14 had been performed. Their underlying assumption: that an enemy would strike with carrier-based planes at a U.S. naval base. Yet "at Pearl Harbor, at the moment of the most intense Pacific crisis in 1941, we repeated the very conditions of Fleet Problem...