Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the doughty Guatemalans had come forward with a counter-threat. Under the presidency of Foreign Minister Eugenio Silva Peña, independent planters had discussed a new marketing cooperative to export bananas independently of United Fruit. Once, that would have signaled war without question. Now there would probably be a compromise. Explained Sam Zemurray: "We adjust...
While their double-barreled discovery is unquestionably one more forward step in cancer research, Drs. Green & Bittner carefully point out that heredity, hormone influences and nutrition are still known to be factors in the appearance of cancer. But the relatively unexplored field of virus influence in mammary cancer has now been opened...
Auden noted that many students today appear to take an especially gloomy attitude towards their future. "Look forward to the next six hours," he advised, "rather than the next ten years. In looking ten years ahead the worst possible things are always about to happen...
Moscow, greatly interested in atomic energy, focused attention on Canada's National Research Council (custodian of atomic-energy secrets). Zabotin and his men were ordered to photograph and forward to Moscow every document in the Research Council's files. Said a Moscow cable: "Give more details of organization of Research Council. Manipulate so as to get to [its] leaders and find out what they...
...Nagasaki-type bombs (which forward-looking scientists and the Air Forces now call primitive "Model Ts") would be exploded at Bikini: one in the air, the other on the surface of the lagoon. So far, the plans concerned chiefly the first bomb, scheduled to be dropped about May 15. No one knew what changes of plans would seem prudent before the second bomb exploded. In any case, promised Vice Admiral W. H. P. Blandy, boss of Operation Crossroads, the test would not be rigged to favor the Army, the Navy or the bomb...