Word: filtering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over a hundred Harvard students volunteered last night for airplane plotting duty with the First Fighter Command at a secret "filter center" somewhere in Boston. Applications which the men filled out will be examined by military authorities before any are finally accepted...
...organized unit of college students to do defense duty with the Boston Information Center, about 300 Harvard men will be signed up tonight at 7 o'clock in Emerson Hall for work in a secret airplane report center. Operating in shifts, they will receive information from airplane spotters and filter stations, plot and map reports, and relay the information to military authorities...
...correspondent for North American Newspaper Alliance). Heroic place names of the Greek campaign appear again with the old ring-Argyrokastron, Janina, Larissa, the Pindus, Arta. Greek soldiers, ill-equipped, ill-led, climb slowly down the mountainsides in reluctant retreat. They shoot their pro-Nazi officers who talk of surrender, filter silently into hiding in the forests when their units are shattered. Their tragicomic air ace, Nitralexis, goes out on reconnaissance in a French biplane of 1918, taking along the nearest things to bombs he can get-empty bottles, old boots, tin cans rolled up in a bag. When Pilot Quayle...
...swear to 180°. Through the slits swirls desert dust, caking on the sweating faces of the four crew members into a brown paste. Beads of sweat trickle down from under their leather helmets and goggles, curl around their noses and cheekbones. Even dust masks, that they wear to filter out the dust, do not save them from coughs and rasping "tank throat...
...TIME researcher works like a mental filter for her editor-writers- each week sifts through thousands of words of basic material. She constantly turns up unsuspected angles, significant bits of history, piquant, enlightening facts. And then, after the story is written, she checks every word of it for accuracy...