Word: ovale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent technical advances are involved, 1) The design would not imitate orthodox ships, but would be oval, streamlined, making use of the plastic properties of concrete. 2) Advances in short-wave radio make possible accurate remote control of the entire convoy and of ships in dividually, even to permitting scattering of the convoy in case of attack. The ships may be controlled by code signals (like the combination of a safe) that would be changed every trip to prevent the enemy from learning and using them...
This was a press conference for the history books. In an hour in the President's great oval office the tragicomedy of the U.S. war effort came out into the open...
...Boston, fat pay checks from Massachusetts war factories have put new life into New England nights. Hundreds of people pack the Club Mayfair, the Satire Room. In the Copley Plaza's Oval Room business is 50% above last year; the popular Beachcomber recently doubled capacity to seat...
...burrows. They took their catches in tight-woven bags to trucks outfitted as laboratories, parked in the shadows of mountains. They combed the rodents for fleas, then slit the carcasses to remove certain viscera and tissues. In many viscera the bacteriologists found what they feared would be there: the oval bacteria of Pasteurella pestis-the plague, the Black Death...
Franklin Roosevelt's oval second floor study had a festive air. Vases of white gladioli and chrysanthemums stood on the mantel. The big marble fireplace was banked with greens. Tall American Beauty roses stood in vases on his mahogany desk. As the hands of the old-fashioned French clock on the mantel neared noon, the President moved to a seat at the right of the fireplace. There he sat, while the 44 wedding guests arrived...