Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Watchful Brain. Karsch's simple safety screen has worked well, but recently he got a better gadget: an "Impact Predictor," which can tell in advance just where each rocket will hit. Two observers track the rocket with telescopes. The information from the stations is fed automatically into an electronic brain (analogue computer) which can solve complicated equations almost instantaneously...
Along with his attractive young wife (Beatrice Pearson) Dr. Carter settles down in the little New Hampshire town of Keenham, where he raises his children and wins the affection of the community through his untiring medical service. For 20 years, he is completely accepted; then, abruptly exposed. The impact of this exposure on the little New England village is like that of flint on stone. Sparks fly--the sparks of bitter reaction--and the result is keen drama...
While most of the University's experts were concerned with the effect of devaluation upon Great Britain and Western Europe, two in the Harvard family were nothing the impact of the British action upon Soviet Russia...
From Berlin to Bari, from Malaga to Manchester, the news of the Russian bomb (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) struck with vastly varying impact. In some places, it cut deep along taut nerves; in others, it slid smoothly off the backs of nations long numbed by constant danger. Nowhere did it provoke the apocalyptic shudders which had attended the world's first atomic explosions; in the Atomic Year V, men still dreaded the unchained atom, but they had gotten used to the idea that they must live with it. The question was, how? How would the Other Bomb affect the great...
...practiced teamwork of Producer Jerry Wald and Writer-Director Delmer Daves (Destination Tokyo, Dark Passage), it is a thoroughly businesslike job. By playing up the facts and playing down the fiction, they have produced a film which at its best carries the conviction of a documentary and the impact of history in the making...