Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he stamped his foot, the rat dropped the object - a $10 bill. Calling the jailer, he paid his fine, walked out of jail, bought more whiskey, was back in jail that night...
...military science appeared likely to consist of a board of top U.S. scientists. The board would order and supervise Government-financed research projects, which might either be farmed out to university laboratories under contract or carried out in Government laboratories under the board's direct control. Its object would be to keep at least a nucleus of civilian scientists at work on preparedness after...
...sound itself has on a plane's speed. Why do shock waves hit a plane at the speed of sound? Why not sooner-or later? The physicists' best guess: sound waves signal ahead to air molecules to get out of the way of a moving object; at supersonic speeds the object outraces the warning, runs smack into groups of unwary molecules...
...ought to show his stuff, as it were, before the university let him go. Commencement parts opened in the thirteenth century, as now, with a Latin speech, which was supposed to show as much with as the speaker was capable of. In the later middle ages and Renaissance the object of the salutatory orator was to make the presiding dignitaries as angry as possible with personal remarks and obscene qulps...
...airmen had already had a hot and glory-filled day while the battleships patiently screened their operations. Spruance sent the battleships in to give them a workout. He did not want his 16-in. gunners to get stale. He has stated: "The object of Navy tactics is to use all of the weapons that you have at your command...