Word: originalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...area occupied by 8,000 to 10,000 in World War II. Such dispersion will impose heavy demands on communications, so the Army is developing what it calls "battlefield surveillance." This consists of sonic and electronic detection gear that will instantly track and report coordinates locating the origin of enemy fire. Recording devices could be planted along unprotected fronts to flash to control centers all unusual noises or movements on the ground and in the air. Some of the devices may detect the presence of enemy patrols and report their direction and approximate size. In control centers -probably electronics-packed...
...several months earlier, and soon "Shangri-La," the novel's Tibetan Utopia, became an international byword for any man's place of retreat from the world, including Franklin Roosevelt's wartime Maryland hideaway. (Ironically, it was also the name announced by Roosevelt as the place of origin of General Jimmy Doolittle's 1942 Tokyo raid.) Both Lost Horizon and Chips sold more than 3,000,000 copies, became movie classics. In the more than 20 novels that followed, Millionaire Novelist Hilton served up a mellow blend of worldly wisdom and well-bred British morality that delighted...
...some diligent sleuthing by Professor James N. Tidwell of San Diego State College, the Stanford University Press was able to show the public The Lion of the West for the first time. Tidwell began his search for it in 1947 simply because he thought it might contain the origin of the phrase "up the salt river," meaning "to defeat a man politically." He collected everything he could on Actor Hackett's tours. He scoured the libraries of the Allegheny region, checked with rare-book dealers. Finally a colleague gave him an idea: if the play appeared in London...
...Lots of venal people dislike their work," said Britain's Soviet Specialist Edward Crankshaw. "Vishinsky was venal but happy." In the strange and somber matrix of murder, assassination, conspiracy and intrigue that has been Soviet official life in the last 30 years, Vishinsky, a man of non-proletarian origin and a onetime dissenter, not only survived, but built a brilliant career for himself...
...upheld the right of the trustees of the State University of New York to order fraternities and sororities in 22 of the university's schools to sever connections with their national headquarters, and to eliminate any policy which "bars students on account of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, or similar artificial criteria...