Word: inert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshal [Petain] believes that Bolshevism is the greatest enemy of all, and therefore earnestly desires a German victory. . . . Washington leads the alliance of Jewish capitalists and Soviet Communists." This must have made curious listening for the U.S. State Department, which still sought to avoid giving Vichy " excuses" for falling inert into Hitler's arms...
...Denver's Rocky Mountain Radio Council, a cooperative organization of regional stations and colleges, was honored for progress toward "freeing the local station from its inert attitude of reliance on either network programs or transcriptions...
Indoor Girl. Although Rita's hair has turned, her head hasn't. As the modern exponent of old-school showfolk, she merely follows a new line of a traditional family business. Offscreen she is easygoing and sometimes inert. Before the camera she is bright as a dollar. Her family were always "clever show people," Rita is no exception...
...extinguisher which puts out burning magnesium, chief ingredient of incendiary bombs. Hitherto magnesium incendiaries have had to be smothered under buckets or sand heaps (water and common extinguishers only make them burn better). The new chemical, a secret of Pyrene Manufacturing Co., blankets the white-hot magnesium with dense, inert gases. Demonstrated last week before witnesses from the U.S. Army Air Corps, it may be of great value in Britain...
...could neither see nor filter out viruses, scientists assumed that they were living, submicroscopic organisms. In 1935 Stanley showed that a pure strain of virus could be crystallized-consisted of lifeless molecules with the curious, lifelike power of reproducing themselves. This discovery closed the mysterious gap between living and inert matter, indicated no essential distinction except relative complexity of structure between atom, molecule, virus, cell and multicellular organism such...