Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked as if some of Joe's dreams might come true. Dallas was at last building a big new school combining Edison and Juarez, complete with gymnasium, dining room and auditorium. When it is finished, he will have room for more students than ever before. "Then," says Joe, who still commutes from nearby Oak Cliff, "I'm going to move out here to West Dallas. And I want a house with a big front porch where I can sit and talk to all the kids...
Later, Ross lamely explained that he feared photos "pinpointing" the President's hideaway might endanger his security, and that they "constitute an invasion of his privacy." But newsmen pointed to a Chamber of Commerce map identifying the Winter White House's location...
...beginning of the test, the gaseous outpourings of Alabama's man-made inferno were drawn off at Borehole No. 2, limiting the combustion to the first 300-ft. stretch. The underground temperature went up to 900° F. Later it might go as high as 3,000° F. No immediate attempt was made to produce a useful, combustible gas: the first thing was to see how steadily the coal could be made to burn. Later, hot air, steam or oxygen could be fed into Borehole No. 1 to make a variety of gases with different chemical and thermal...
...fierce, carnivorous snails boring into big achatinas with sharp, file-like teeth. He also found snail-eating beetles, and took both finds back to Hawaii, where they are still penned up carefully for observation. Some biologists fear that if the beetles and small snails exterminate the giant snails, they might look around for other food and become pests themselves...
Five years after the Martin 130, Trippe got his famed Boeing 314 flying boats, and the British were still not ready to fly the Atlantic. But when he got rights to land at Lisbon and Marseille, they wearily told him he might as well come along to Southampton...