Word: envisionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a scientific cloud on the horizon promises, or threatens, to revolutionize postwar living. One is the "microwave." Microwaves lie in the largely uncharted area of the radio spectrum above the part now used for conventional sound and television broadcasting (upper limit: roughly 80 megacycles). Microwaves are used in radar...
Ontarians, particularly, hoped it would be. They are short of power. Given a surplus, they could envision a vast new industrial area sprouting at the power sites.
Over the Phone. One point the President seemed anxious to make definite: the blueprint shortly to be discussed by the Big Four was just a first draft. The blueprint was a plan to stop aggression, the President said; it did not envision an organization which you would have to call...
From an almost forgotten quarter came a loud, firm "no." It was the voice of the Marines, who fear that unification would end the identity of their proud Corps. Said Lieut. General A. A. Vandegrift, Commandant: "We can envision no gain ... in any reorganization which would discard a tradition and...
Feeding them the hormone did not work (they eliminated it too fast). So Lorenz injected pellets of the substance under their skin, let them absorb it slowly. The results were startling. In two to six weeks the roosters' red combs paled and shrank; they grew female feathers and a...