Word: construction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human reparations," it will be the first time a Nobel prize has been awarded to a virtual prisoner of war. When Professor Hahn did his first atom-splitting, he was chemical head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Later, under the Nazis, the institute worked furiously to construct an atomic bomb, based on his discovery...
...billing on A.T. & T.'s program is the quick installation of 2,000,000 new telephones for war-deprived subscribers, plus replacement of 800,000 old telephones which should have been junked long ago. To speed up its long distance service, A.T.& T. will construct 3½ million miles of toll circuits. It will also complete a transcontinental and a north-south (Chicago to New Orleans) cable, each capable of handling telephone conversations and television channels at once...
...rhythms, and geometrical figures for harmonies. He chooses a combination of numbers and geometrical figures which pleases his fancy, then plots this combination on graph paper to make a blueprint that looks promising. The blueprint, transcribed into musical notation, is the piece of music the "engineer" set out to construct. Shaw promised that the Schillinger system could provide 10,000 rhythmic combinations from the 19 basic rhythms used by Mozart and Beethoven...
Arrived at Guam, or Tinian or Saipan, U.S. aircraft land on airfields such as the Japanese could not even conceive, much less construct, while they were there...
...Suez Canal. Like Egypt, King Farouk was still making political payments on a predecessor's sins. The world was indebted to them too. For 75 years ago Khedive Ismail Pasha had defrayed the costs of his irrepressible gallantries by selling a European company the right to construct and operate the canal across the Isthmus of Suez. Great Britain (militarily) and France (administratively) controlled the canal. If not exactly friends, these powers had become old familiars with whom Egypt could quarrel cozily whenever it became necessary to assert her dignity. Now a new, incalculable factor threatened to complicate the Suez...