Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Drew's plans had been worked out in secret presession caucuses with Conservative M.P.s. By week's end, he had made plain the strategy decided. His party was going to fight all the way; it planned to criticize every government measure as it had never done under former leader John Bracken. Drew lost no time in starting. On the first day, when Prime Minister St. Laurent introduced a motion, Drew found a technical flaw in it, forced St. Laurent to withdraw...
Abstractions In Canterbury. The earliest of the manuscripts, dating from the dark ages of Europe, had been strongboxes of Christian culture. Done mostly on calfskin parchment and laced with burnished gold and rainbow colors, they had kept fresh and shining through the centuries. One of them, an 8th Century psalter believed to have been made by the monks of Canterbury, was decorated with twining capital letters as abstract and whimsically complicated as any paintings produced today. Another, dating from the early 9th Century in France, was a book of the four Gospels written entirely in gold on pages dyed purple...
...German V-2 rocket was not a real guided missile. Its control apparatus was set before firing. If the rocket went in the wrong direction, all that could be done was to cut off the fuel supply (by radio) and bring the rocket down...
...These are true guided missiles," said the Air Force, "which can be launched in one direction, then changed in their flight to hit another target." The steering is done by the four fins in the rocket's tail. The Air Force did not explain how the fins are controlled from the ground, and admitted that the degree of control is "not great...
This time Dr. Reichelderfer got an argument from an expert: Nobel Prizewinner Irving Langmuir of General Electric Co. The dry ice method does work, Langmuir insisted, if it is done right...