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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There, scientists of the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group will load the brain with all available data on both planes: speed, range, altitude, rate of climb and fire power, along with such variables as weather, time of warning and accuracy. Then like a giant Bendix washer, the brain will whirl into action, stirring, scrambling, sorting, poking, prodding and reassembling the figures until the answer pops out next year, all set to be neatly starched and ironed. The only thing the machine won't do is make a decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Trial by Bendix | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

They used nylon ropes and mountain-climbing methods to assist them, and planned to reach the lower roof, cross to the tower, which they would then climb and adorn with whitewashed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eli Invaders Are Punished by Yale | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...becomes a struggle between motherly joy and motherly foreboding. After the miracle of the wine at the wedding in Cana, she loses sight of him until just before the end. Asch brings her into the Garden of Gethsemane to eavesdrop on the arrest, a few pages further has her climb to where the cross stands on Golgotha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Miriam & Yeshua | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Because he is not well enough to climb ladders, Matisse uses a 4-ft. brush for his murals, which are to represent the Virgin and Child, St. Dominic and the Stations of the Cross. Like the windows, the murals please him enormously. "All my life," he exults, "I've studied the works of other artists-Raphael, Griinewald, Memling-but do you know what enabled me to free myself from their influence, to satisfy myself with my work? Operational shock! "In 1941 I had a serious operation and almost died. But I survived, and I thought, 'Look, Matisse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: What I Want to Say | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Navajo, but the priests have a religion for all men, white or red or black . . . The Ten Commandments are a ladder which you climb in this life to live with God in heaven. If you don't, you won't find anything except a mess in the hereafter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: St. Michael's 50th | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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