Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Memphis started a venereal disease control program which Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U.S. Public Health Service has since praised as having "the soundest base of any large city [program] on record...
Temporary Embarrassment. In the Azores, the U.S. had another setback. Portugal's Dictator-Premier Salazar had been ready to sign a far-reaching agreement, but premature publicity embarrassed both him and the State Department. Last week Secretary Byrnes announced that the U.S.-built air base on Santa Maria island was being turned back to Portugal for peaceful development. The U.S. got a sop: temporary (18 months) transit rights. The State Department could base a hope on the French adage: "Nothing endures as long as the temporary...
...bring the boys home," P.W.s have become indispensable. Ninety percent of the personnel handling, repairing, conserving and hauling the hundreds of million dollars' worth of U.S. surplus material are now German P.W.s. Through error, the names of P.W.s even sneaked into the recent telephone directory of Western Base Section Headquarters in Paris. The directory was quickly withdrawn and purged...
...vibrate 160 to 210 times per second. The plane of vibration is fixed in relation to the insect's fuselage. When the insect banks, turns climbs or dives, the gyroscope tries to keep vibrating in the same plane. Its struggles register upon a knot of nerves at the base of the haltere, and tell the insect how it is doing in space. If both halteres are removed, the insect loses its sense of equilibrium, goes into a spin, crashes...
...gridmen started off like a smoldering house, picking up power after an initial loss to Tufts by one point. They dropped Rochester, lost to a dynamite New London Sub Base outfit, then smeared Coast Guard, smashed the Merchant Marine Academy, upset Brown, and ran up 60 points against...