Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haircuts & Gold. The first traces of gold were found in the Val D'Or area, in the heart of Quebec's wild northwestern bush country, as early as 1909, but the town of Val D'Or itself was not really born until 1933, when a peripatetic barber set up a stool on a flat rock and started to work on hairy prospectors. In 1934, the year the Selfs arrived, the town's official population was five...
...good at it that President Roosevelt sent him to London during the blitz. He was one of only four Americans to be entrusted with all U.S.-British technical secrets (the others: famed scientists Vannevar Bush, Karl T. Compton, James Bryant Conant). When the Nazis buzzed over their V-1 and V2, Hovde was drafted to devise countermeasures. He has since supervised the entire U.S. rocket-development program...
Although both the manager and his boss denied any disagreement about how baseball should be played, many dopesters thought differently. Mindful that big-league baseball is bush-league by prewar standards, McCarthy had strongly defended his men: "I say the players are giving everything they have. You can't expect them to develop a lot of skills . . . which are not in their physical make...
...national defense, $50,000,000 in the natural sciences, $20,000,000 in medicine. A bill to carry out the Bush plan was introduced in the U.S. Senate last week by Senator Warren Magnuson of Washington...
Last week it looked as if U.S. citizens (and the press) might soon be permitted to talk out loud about radar. The Army, Navy, Vannevar Bush's OSRD and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics had set up a new Joint Board on Scientific Information Policy. Purpose of the Board was to tell the U.S. public some scientific facts of life which are no secret to the Japanese. Scientists considered it high time...