Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wide, flat valley dotted with greasewood, yucca and bunch grass selected as site for the test explosion is known in Manhattan Project doubletalk as "Trinity." Most of the land once belonged to a rancher named MacDonald, whose wrecked ranch house was the first human habitation to be blasted by the terrible force of exploding atoms. Ten thousand yards from the test site are the two low, heavy-timbered buildings, banked to the roof with earth, which housed the bomb-exploding generator and observation instruments (known in atom-scientist code as "Beta" and "Ten Thousand"). Nearby stand two white-painted Sherman...
...postwar record world is coming in on the wings of an old-fashioned hymn sing. Leading the service is Movie Thrush Jeanette MacDonald with such standbys as Holy City and Nearer, My, God, to Thee (Religious Songs, Victor, 6 sides). Fred Waring's glee club & orchestra harmonizes ten others (Songs of Devotion, Decca, 10 sides). Operatic Tenor Richard Crooks solos the Negro hymns Were You There? and The Trumpeter (Victor, 2 sides). Alfred Wallenstein directs his new command, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles, in the Schubert and Bach-Gounod Ave Marias (Decca, 2 sides). For the more secular...
...practice, with the majority being from the Naval ROTC program. The coaches have a nucleus of experienced players to work with, which should prove quite helpful. These players include: Dave McKintosh and Rod Perkins, ends; Chet Pierce and Ted Woggan, tackles; Ellis Hodge and Mal Allen, guards; Bob MacDonald; Marvin Jenkins, Pete Harwood, and Bob Cowen, backs
...summary, Fine indicated that the course of the Labour Government would clearly follow its platform program and that the caution of the last Labour Government, headed by J. Ramsay MacDonald, would not be repeated
...that voting for 50 other seats had gone so much in their favor that the result would be decided by a very narrow margin. If Labor has won 100 new seats, it would have 266 seats in the next Parliament-22 seats short of the number on which Ramsay MacDonald formed his second Labor Government...