Word: core
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might be the hard core of a volcano or peak formed by above-sea erosion. Only deep drilling could give the details. But the mountain was there, far below the growing zone of coral. Darwin, from the deck of his windjammer, had guessed right...
...speculating on the character of our German occupation in the event of an Allied victory, "Temper the Wind" is a somber prediction that has unfortunately come true. Accused of writing their play from today's headlines, authors Leonard Mins and Edward Mabley unknowingly cut to the core of our occupational troubles in their 1944 gamble, a premonition that has given them a play and the world a headache. Their guesswork has turned out a shockingly accurate and courageous play that reaches the stage as the theatre's first belated attempt to bring the post-war problems close to an escapist...
Julius Albert ("Cap") Krug, young (39), huge (6 ft. 3 in., 237-lb.) Secretary of the Interior. Although he works like a piston, Cap Krug is still largely untried in the tougher aspects of his job. But he learns fast and has a stubborn core. One of seven children of a Madison, Wis. policeman, Krug worked his way through the University of Wisconsin by toting ice and baggage, carpentering and working in a filling station. At 30, he was TVA's manager of power operations, went from there to OPM as chief power consultant. When OPM was absorbed...
...control the mighty trade unions, and liberal President Ramón Grau San Martin, whose election they fought, is reduced to sitting on their lap. In Chile, with 40,000 militants, they have three ministers in the new Cabinet. But in corrupt, revolution-weary Mexico the Commies, with a core of 9,000, have lost considerably in influence and Government patronage. These were the forces that Molotov's visiting envoys had at their beck...
...second year the program allows opportunity for a basic core of work in one of the established disciplines. Fairbank's report on the program states. Besides language and a continuation of the first year study of Chinese civilization--each of which takes up a quarter of the time--the second year man applies himself to a particular aspect of China of his own choosing...