Word: domain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gazette called on true-red Soviet physicists to "rescue the quantum theory from the mire into which physicists and idealists of all shades and colors have driven it." The "latest gigantic achievements of physics in the domain of liberating atomic energy and the study of cosmic rays," trumpeted the Gazette, "have been made not because of, but in spite of current theory...
Though truckers are the elite of the Western Conference, it is a corral which also contains dozens of other, oddly unrelated trades. In Beck's domain "teamsters" make beer, can fruit, dehydrate vegetables, sell and service automobiles, pump gasoline, work in warehouses, and clean suits. They are undertakers, cow punchers and aircraft mechanics...
...Seattle, the capital of his domain, he has made himself a leading citizen. The job was done in part by the lever of power and the trowel of publicity, but mostly by the touchstone of success. By virtue of his hard-won eminence, he rubs shoulders with bankers and bishops, raises funds for charity, and serves, beaming with pride, as a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Washington...
...that the Council appoint "acting student policemen" to help keep order at the Yale game rally also came up for discussion at the meeting. The Council turned the plan down, feeling that an undergraduate police force would be ineffective, and that such appointments were out of the Council's domain...
...elected governor of Louisiana last winter, 29-year-old Russell Long was not above pausing to speak enthusiastically about himself. He reminded Louisiana voters that he was Huey Long's oldest son, and strongly intimated that he was the true heir to the departed Kingfish's domain. This summer, when he set out to run for the U.S. Senate, he made the inference even plainer by continually speaking of "Me and Earl...