Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until last night, the Massachusetts Board had not decided to follow its neighbor's lead, although it had before it an application from the Boston studios of Arthur Murray, whose New York branch had advertised for ex-G.I. dancing students yesterday morning...
...exaggerating its importance or Anglo-American failure to follow through with a positive policy in the Middle East and elsewhere might snatch away the victory's fruits. What happened at U.N. last week was this: when the Security Council met to discuss Iran, Russia was still absent. But Andrei Gromyko had written that Russia would withdraw her troops from Iran by early May and that "other questions" like oil and Azerbaijan were "not connected" with the evacuation. Next day Byrnes moved to accept the Soviet reply, with Russia and Iran making a further report on May 6. The Council...
...tracers" Seaborg meant radioactive tags attached to chemical elements. Radioactive carbon, for instance, follows ordinary carbon through the most complicated chemical reactions, and its progress can be traced by its radioactive effects. Thus if an infinitesimal part of the carbon in sugar is made radioactive and fed to a human being, physiologists can follow it through the digestive tract, into the blood, the muscles, and out through the lungs as carbon dioxide...
...Tsunami follow any submarine earthquake which causes a fissure or crack in the earth's crust. When a part of the ocean bottom drops away or when there is an underwater landslide, water surges in from all sides to fill the void...
WASHINGTON--Soft coal operators were revealed tonight to have informed Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach that they fear the granting of a tonnage assessment to the United Mine Workers for a health and welfare fund would establish a precedent which other unions might attempt to follow...