Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daisy Chain of Thought. In Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the Vassar Class of '35 postponed its tenth reunion, sent out questionnaires instead. Sample queries : "Weight?" "Color of Hair?" "Wrinkles?" Out of the Red. In Woodstock, N.H., authorities gratefully accepted an unsolicited check for $1.20 from one L. Dewey of Muskegon, Mich., which wiped out the town's $1.19 debt...
...soldier in the field would hazard one answer: it takes too long for criticisms of weapons to get up through the chain of commands, where criticisms are often taken skeptically, checked in a time-wasting, cumbersome procedure...
...bridgehead brought Eisenhower's armies up to a practically unbroken 150-mile front on the Rhine, from Nijmegen to Coblenz. The amazing U.S. crossing at Remagen was a great credit, not only to the local heroes, but to the Supreme Commander himself, who had passed word down the chain of command to be alert for any opportunity and aggressive to seize...
...Federal Communications Commission, which has been holding hearings on postwar broadcasting and microwave plans, heard the most ambitious yet. The Raytheon Manufacturing Co., a major manufacturer of electronic tubes for the Army & Navy, announced that it is prepared to begin construction this year of a coast-to-coast chain of microwave transmitting stations along airline routes. This system, says Raytheon, will...
Raytheon plans to use a system of automatic transmission of microwaves along such a chain of towers, as an alternative to the expensive coaxial cables used in television. Raytheon's broadcasting stations will scan a wide area, transmit what they see from coast to coast...