Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Golden Man finished in front by half a length, George dashed for the winner's circle to kiss his horse and rider. In due time, another announcer took over the microphone...
Relaxing in your room while you listen to a lecture has become a reality due to the current series of Lowell Institute Lectures. Substituting the microphone for the platform bark, the Institute broadcasts eight programs each week over five Boston stations...
...marital unhappiness. The canvassers were welcomed with coffee and cakes; the only grumbling came from businessmen who lost trade and had to give their employees full pay for the day. One thorough census taker waited in front of a maternity hospital to find out the sex of a child due to be born at the deadline...
...graphite vanes were probably the V-2's weakest point. The gases racing past them at far above the speed of sound had a temperature of some 4,500° Fahrenheit. Not even graphite could take such punishment long. Many V-2 misfirings were probably due to failure of the vanes and their guiding mechanism...
...again last week. Present position: about 1,300 miles east of the Marquesas. For a fortnight after the Kon-Tiki left Callao, Peru, the Peru current carried it northwest nearly to the equator. Then the south equatorial current and the southeast trade wind took over and pushed the raft due west across the Pacific. Drifting 40 to 50 miles a day, it was now well ahead of schedule and had covered more than half of the distance (5,000 miles) between Callao and its goal, Tahiti...