Word: marked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...develop advanced radar storm detectors. The bureau also needed an electronic computer that would allow its statisticians to give more time to careful analyses of weather data. With such new knowledge and mechanical aids, Reichelderfer felt certain that the bureau's predictions would be nearer the mark...
Pacific Spectator tries hard not to be parochial or schoolmarmish, tries to strike a balance between the critical and the creative, and "as a mark of respectability" pays its contributors $30 an article. Its "Spectator's Appraisal," one of two regular departments, assays such solid stuff as Toynbee's A Study of History and Northrop's The Meeting of East and West. "Tradition and the Skeptic," the other, usually takes the skeptic's side...
Cocteau has transformed (with much historical irony) almost all of the serpentine story. The Cocteau version is about a young blood named Patrick (Jean Marais), who runs off with his Uncle Mark's blonde, beautiful wife, Nathalie (Madeleine Sologne...
Several minutes later the gave pounded again to mark the announcement, "The President of the United States." Mr. Truman walked in smiling, shaking hande with a page boy here, a Sonator there...
Cornell racked up a ten-point lead at the ten-minute mark, broadened it to 26-14 at the half, and won going away. Bill Prior, George Hauptfuhrer, and Steve Davis all were ousted with five fouls in the last eight minutes of the game, which aided the Crimson cause not one iota...