Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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No one knows all this better than the man who led U.S. science to war: Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. But Dr. Bush is hopeful that things are changing. In the first issue of Physics Today, he declares that U.S. science is...
¶ Five nations-France, Britain and the Benelux countries (Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg)-had signed at Brussels a 50-year mutual assistance pact, with emphasis on a military alliance. Last week the five defense ministers met in London, established a permanent five-power military committee, pondered common defense problems.
¶ In Moscow, Marshal Nikolai A. Bulganin issued the Order of the Day for May Day. Said he: "The entire personnel of our armed forces are obliged steadfastly to perfect their military knowledge, to master new military technique, to increase their vigilance . . ." For emphasis, the Red Army displayed new, long...
Dr. Alan Gregg of the Rockefeller Foundation stuck a probe into the powerful specialty boards,* which certify doctors as specialists in the 15 recognized fields. The inbred, backward-looking boards, he said, give examinations that try to find out whether a candidate knows what the examiners know, not what the...
Ciardi glumly admits that "practically no poet makes money." Publishers are in business for profit and poetry is carried as "a kind of charity which decks up" the rest of the material. American reading tastes, he claims, "depraved by Hollywood and the damned emphasis on reading speed," leave no room...