Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bell Telephone's scientists, for example, point out that, war or no war, the peacetime research which many industries had to shelve would have precipitated great advances within five years. And other farseeing scientists like Vannevar Bush concede a short-term gain for applied science but a long-term loss, for the ultimate wellspring of technological progress is in fundamental, "pure" research, far from the gadget factory...
...Douglas Bush, to prepare for publication a volume on "History of English Literature from...
...common soldier, Padilla joined bush-whiskered Emiliano Zapata, a tenant farmer whose legions of peon generals spread terror among the owners of great haciendas. One of the few incorruptible revolutionists, Zapata believed genuinely in the social revolution. All Mexicans remember his motto: "Man of the South, it is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees...
...mission built airdromes at Ogelbeng, Ega, Asaloka and Raipinka-but missionaries would naturally want to carry the gospel into the interior jungles. When World War II broke out, they flew the mission's single-engined Junkers plane, Papua, to Dutch New Guinea and hid it in the bush. Then-it was reported-they proceeded to Germany...
...Specimens of such extinct creatures as the great auk, the Labrador duck, the sea mink; and the only Townsend's bunting (a bird) ever found in hand or in bush...