Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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J.P.L.'s founders got a bigger boost in 1939. when the National Academy of Sciences came across with $10,000 to develop rockets for helping airplanes get off the ground. In 1941 the first airplane took off with a J.P.L.-developed JATO (Jet Assisted Take Off) rocket. During World...
But 46 nations did not produce 46 styles. In the brave new world of widely circulated reproductions, painters and sculptors are busier keeping abreast of trends than developing distinctive characteristics of their own. Overwhelmingly, the trend was abstract expressionist, in both painting and sculpture. Confronted by much that was grandiose...
In his own land, Aalto can do no wrong, is held in awe as a kind of national monument. When Saynatsalo allowed the electric-light company to erect a hideous neon advertising sign that marred the view, Aalto led a night boat-raiding party, stoned the offending sign to smithereens...
Truman Gibson, winner of the prestigious Medal for Merit for his services as civilian aide in the War Department in World War II. still has plenty of power over a boxer's future: he is president of National Boxing Enterprises, Inc. of Illinois (successor to the I.B.C.), which puts...
¶Other games: Starting a drive for a national championship, the mighty Iowa Hawkeyes spotted California an early touchdown, then came back to win 42-12. Beefy Ohio State had to struggle mightily to edge upstart Duke, 14-13. Once-great Michigan State, still reeling from last season's...