Word: orbit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poles of the magnet is a doughnut-shaped glass vacuum tube, 74 inches across. A heated filament sprays electrons (particles of negative electricity) into the tube. The intense electric field stirred up by the magnetism between the poles makes the electrons whirl round & round the tube in a circular orbit. In 1 240th of a second they make 250,000 complete circuits. The enormous velocity of all this whirling, measured in electrical terms, is equivalent to 100 million volts...
...they're still strangers, even if inclusion of their voices represents a great advance in documentary technique. In "The Way Ahead" a small group of British soldiers is introduced as civilians and carried through training into action and into the orbit of the movie audience. In this spectator-actor set-up the war hits home--the man who died is your friend and it's very different from a dozen strange bodies dropping under a fusillade of steel...
Over the radio and in articles in the Hearst press she has pounded away at the thesis that Russia, as the strongest power in Europe, is rapidly Communizing the continent. In a series in the Congressional Record she discussed all the small countries in Russia's orbit, detailed the Communist influence in their present Governments. Her conclusion: "This cannot long remain two worlds as it is today-the world of totalitarianism and the world of liberty. Indeed, as our conflict with Nazi totalitarianism proved, these two worlds are doomed to come into conflict...
...Turkey, Kars is the military key to its eastern defenses. If Kars passed into the Soviet Union, the rest of Turkey might soon follow into the Russian orbit...
Throughout the Luzon campaign Volckmann and his Ilocanos-short, dark-skinned, sensitive northern Filipinos-worked on their own within the planning orbit of Lieut. General Walter Krueger's Sixth Army. With air support they swept around the western and northern coasts of Luzon, ranged down the west bank of the Cagayan River and kept the Japanese nervously watching on every side...