Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contributors should bring their books to the Yenching Library at Boylston or else leave them with House and dormitory superintendents...
...vibrates convincingly. The monotonous beat of the guiding radio beam throbs in the pilot's headset. If the instructor chooses to start a fire in an engine, an alarm bell blasts, the pilot stops the engine, and the controls react violently. The crew must know instantly how to bring in a crippled plane, be able to find the runway with a blind-landing system. Even the squeak of tires is heard as the wheels hit the concrete on a landing. The crewmen come back from their simulated flight in a sweat that is not simulated...
Under the Tennant wing, Foges founded Adprint in 1937, and made it a refugee rendezvous. It printed playing cards and catalogues, supplied teams of experts to produce books in "packages," all ready for publishers to bring out. Its cheap ($1) Britain in Pictures series sold 4,000,000 copies, ran to 120 volumes covering everything from windmills to cricket...
...will television affect U.S. family life? "It will re-cement it," insists CBS's Vice President Adrian Murphy. "I talked with a man who had seen his teen-age daughter for the first time in two months. He bought a set, and now she brings her boy friends home." At first television's novelty value was so high that it some times altered the usual standards of hospitality. Many TV owners, faced with a houseful of curious friends & neighbors, required regulars to bring their own refreshments...
...bead on C.I.O.'s United Electrical, Radio & Machinery Workers of America. Colt charged that the union's record "of obstructing national policies" might endanger the company's fulfillment of armament orders, and refused to renew its contract. Under the Taft-Hartley law, the union could not bring charges of unfair labor practices before the National Labor Relations Board; its officers had refused to swear they were not Communists...