Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought short-ranged planes up to where they could thoroughly work over their targets. In flying off planes which still have to light two or three-thousand miles to their targets, the required job in a lot of strategic bombing work, the carrier's real value, its ability to bring an airfield near the target, is severely...
...will be able to rave about Jethroe as a defensive player. And Sam is already 30 years old, with not more than four or five years of good baseball in him. Since Rickey's present outfield averages 25 years, why should be add an old man of 30 and bring up the average...
...Vicar Sparks the church's drab interior and plain, pitch-pine pews seemed "very institutional." Last week, the parishioners of Bolton upon Dearne were doggedly trying out a brave new ecclesiastical color scheme-red (pews), white (walls) and blue (doors). "The whole idea," Vicar Sparks explained, "is to bring color and warmth to the church without making it gaudy...
Poor Bombs Are Easy. The trick is to bring them together quickly enough. If they approach one another slowly, they begin to react before they are fully in contact. The heat developed drives them apart prematurely, and the reaction stops. In the bomb described in the Smyth Report, the masses were driven together, probably in millionths of a second, by some such "low-order explosive" as TNT. Even if the Russians did not do as well as U.S. scientists, their less efficient bomb would still produce an "atomic explosion...
...bumper crops would not bring cheap food; the support program would keep most prices up, despite the huge surpluses. During fiscal 1949, CCC poured out $3.1 billion for loans and purchases to keep up prices on 31 commodities, just about five times the outlay in 1948. At the fiscal year's end in June, the agency had $2.3 billion tied up in loans and inventories, showing a paper loss of $356 million for the year at current market prices. Most of the support money went for only seven commodities: cotton, $822 million; corn, $470 million; wheat, $640 million; flaxseed...