Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact is that the pre-war U.S. fighter program was nothing to boast about. Hap Arnold and others responsible for U.S. fighter design sorely misjudged the requirements of war. Notably, the U.S. fighters of 1938, 1939 and 1940 were under-gunned, under-armored. For this fact - and for the resulting combat deficiencies - General Arnold cannot wholly plead the natural innocence of peace. Britain went into the war, in 1939, with two fighters (the Hurricane and Spitfire) which were ahead of any U.S. fighter then in service. Both planes had been designed and developed in the years (roughly 1935-39) when...
...Oregon had a champion's string of firsts. She was the first modern battleship of basic U.S. design; the first major warship built on the West Coast (San Francisco's Union Iron Works, 1896). But her great claim to fame was that for 68 days the U.S. waited with bated breath while she raced against time: she had completed her shakedown cruise in the Pacific in time to start a 14,700-mile dash to the Atlantic to fight the Spanish Fleet. She almost foundered in the storm-racked Magellan Strait. She had no time to have...
...Nothing is for sale at bargain prices, nor will the house be built in three days with cheap labor. The declaration of the four freedoms is not a promise of a gift which the people will receive: it is a declaration of a design which the people themselves may execute...
Although the Enfields were constructed to be carried in a sidewise position, the Navy men will carry them in the normal American way, although they weigh more than American models, and differ in design and balance...
Other course changes which have been made during the second session are the addition of Anthropology 812 which was scheduled for the first session but not given because of Professor Tozzer's absence, and the addition of a course in Industrial Camouflage Design which is called Fine Arts...