Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seventy-five veterans constructed the instrument under the direction of Frederic G. Miller, research associate in Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics. Miller will follow the machine to Virginia...
...scarcely an inkling. Gandhi, by the manner of his death, told them a little more of what he had been trying to communicate-but not enough to make them live as he had tried to. The world which revered few men had revered him-but not enough to follow where he pointed. The world was ashamed, and bewildered. Premier Nehru, that great and learned and most fluent man, came back to Gandhi's cooling pyre the day after the cremation. He spoke a few halting, wistful sentences, like a lost child. Said Nehru...
...reducing Dev's majority to a mere plurality, and further confound an increasingly confused government. In that case Dev, who refused to consider joining a coalition, might resign, but the chances of forming a successful coalition without him were so slight that another general election would undoubtedly follow promptly...
...little boys, Shirley Temple was the the biggest box-office attraction, and the king of England tossed away an Empire for an American divorcee. That year three of the most popular entertainers of the day, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, and Irving Berlin, Pooled their talent in a picture called "Follow the Fleet." It was a slick, sophisticated job, and it provided its stars with an excellent vehicle for their song-and-dance routines...
Aside from the dubious point that today's musicals lack the talent that is provided by a Berlin or an Astaire, the main superiority of a film like "Follow the Fleet" is that it lacks the horrible brassiness of modern musicals. It is inexpressibly delightful to sit in a theater without the constant danger of having a big-name band jump up and down noisily. Here the commercial Jazz is present but not overpowering, and the picture wends its pleasant way without mishap. A perhaps interesting note: Betty Grable is in the billing, but it was impossible to find...