Word: giving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's top nuclear physicists launched a prediction into the suspenseful calm with which the U.S. responded to the news of Russia's atomic explosion. Professor Enrico Fermi made the obvious but often forgotten point that Russia's Alamogordo does not, by any means, give her automatic parity with the U.S. Quantity, quality and means of delivery are crucially important. If the U.S. keeps ahead in these respects. Fermi could see no war for 20 years...
...code-a highly complex system of interrelated maneuvers which football savants describe by such terms as "angles," "loops," "converging" and "dealing in." If Army could unscramble the pattern so as to sense, a few seconds in advance, what combinations Michigan was likely to use in certain situations, it would give the team a priceless edge. Blaik cracked the code thoroughly enough to devote most of spring and autumn practice to drilling his boys in Michiganisms...
...Fellows on his staff, decided to try a Louisville version of the Nieman Fellowships. Under the plan, Reporter Amster will study three days a week at the University of Louisville, work at the Times three more. The newspaper will pay her salary, provide tuition and books. The university will give Betty Lou private instruction on her hand-picked interests (municipal government, anthropology, taxation, labor relations, the Soviet Union...
...minister's daughter, as a magazine frankly and exclusively devoted to sex. the Gazette was sold in 1935 to Publisher Roswell. When the Post Office suspended his mailing privileges in 1942 for one year for "obscenity," Roswell cleaned up the Gazette a bit. New Editor Hoffman plans to give the monthly magazine another scrubbing, replace "Bare Facts About Burlesque" with more bare facts about sport...
...York's Herald Tribune, in an editorial edged with alarm, noted that "twenty-five times an hour clear-spoken announcers will give the hapless traveler superlative descriptions of beer, cigarettes, salves, toothpaste, watches and so on." The Tribune did not look forward to the day when the hucksters will have perfected "the technique of making not-listening impossible...