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Word: highly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those we can reasonably expect in the future. He describes how light, mobile, powerful weapons such as recoilless guns have swung the advantage in land warfare back to the defense; how the co-ordination of radar net, jet-aircraft, and guided missile should make things very tough for the high-altitude bomber; bow rockets and fast submarines will be advanced enough to chop up conventional naval vessels at long range. Bush tends to describe war as crystallizing into a stable pattern-he states that a future war will bring "no such burst of new devices" as appeared in World...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Science and Civilization | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

Before the Administration undertakes further renovating of the plant, it should examine the purposes for which the building exist. A Council Report, giving the "Students' view" of Harvard education, received high praise from the Dean's Office last spring. The Administration would do well to ask the Council's advice--as it did for the Lamont Library--in putting the "students' view" into practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seats of Learning | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

This latest attempt to cover the subject of John L. Lewis in one volume makes exciting, highly colorful reading. It draws on interviews more than anything else for its facts, and thus gains a high degree of emotional impact in describing the conflicts that have always surrounded the big, ham-handed UMW boss...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: 'Something of a Man' | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

...Devil in the Flesh" is a story about a high school boy and a war bride in France in 1918 who do not find the words of the contemporary ditty to be the case at all. The young woman (Michelene Presle), married to a soldier she does not love, becomes deeply and passionately involved with an adolescent (Gerard Phillipe), and around their clandestine romance is spun the action of the finest French film this reviewer has seen...

Author: By Roy M. Goodman, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

Harvard surged ahead at the outset of the contest, sparked by player-coach Sandy Calhoun, who raced up three first chukker goals. Calhoun was top scorer for the Crimson with seven tallies to his credit. Allen Ellis of Princeton, however, with eight was high scorer for the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tigers Defeat Polo Team by 1 Point 16-15 | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

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