Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aboard kept mum. But Maritime Commission's vice chairman, Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery, who was also aboard, beamed at the ship's performance. The Navy has stated its objections to the ships: too slow for most combat jobs, too short to launch their planes on calm days, except with catapults. But the ships are fast enough to keep up with merchant convoys, to spread an umbrella of planes over them to fight U-boats. On their ability to do that well, the President and Kaiser have gambled. Only the Battle of the Atlantic can give the final...
Oceanographer Parr's own ideas on climate control are still in a sketchy stage, but he offered meteorologists a few provocative suggestions: they might "create a city of calm in a windy location" by means of windbreaks and shelterbelt planting, cool or warm a city by the use of "heat-generating or light-reflecting facades in city building," control the effects of the sun by intelligent planning of light and shadow...
...notes, sometimes almost essays, on printing theory, technique and history; on book esthetics, paper and binding; even, briefly, on relations with his clients. Example: "There are times when the designer feels that his work is in danger of being spoiled by others. ... He will find, if he remains calm and reasonable (and does not take himself too seriously), that in most instances he will emerge with a large part of his work untouched, and he will find that his own constancy will usually outwear these occasional interferences...
...Later]: More than 1,000 Jap bodies have been buried in one day, mostly by the troops who had slain them. Men who had killed Japs calmly and efficiently, who had picked up their own dead with tight-lipped calm, vomited as they collected the bodies of the enemy...
Whatever trouble alien Japanese may cause in the U.S., government officials seem relatively calm about most Nisei-American-born U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry. At Camp Shelby, Miss, last week an all-Nisei group was training for U.S. Army combat service. More than 1,000 young Nisei were enrolled in about 125 colleges in 37 states, finishing educations interrupted when they were evacuated from the West Coast...