Word: panels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew I was moving when I saw the B-29 back up on me. But it was so quiet that I could hear the clock ticking on my instrument panel. It was eerie. The plane was so sensitive that I had to handle the controls like a surgeon. When I turned on all four cylinders I felt as though somebody had kicked me in the rump with a lead boot. I kept thinking of the terrific power I was sitting...
...fifth-floor window, a man tossed out a sheet rope, stepped back into the room, and was not seen again. In another window stood a girl in a white nightgown which blazed up suddenly before she jumped. Above her, a man swayed in a panel of flame, rolling his head from side to side. Around him, guests huddled and crawled on ledges to escape deadly gas and smoke, dangled from sheet ropes over fire-belching windows, and leaped for safety nets. Some hit with such force that the nets were torn from firemen's hands. As a girl jumped...
Into the Unknown. Fermi ran the test. At 9:54 a.m. he gave an order. A whining motor withdrew the automatic control rod. The Geiger counters on the instrument panel clicked a little faster; a pen drew a slightly higher curve on a strip of paper...
...said that giver 150 colleges and universities have already signalled their intention of sending delegates to the conference, which will be held at the University of Chicago from December 28 through 30, and that the four point panel agenda had been decided upon...
...First panel to be discussed and voted upon in the plenary session will be the organization and duties of a Continuations Committee, which will be elected to form the framework of the relation of the proposed national organization to its constituent colleges and student organ izations. The third and fourth panels will take up student activity in international affairs and the objectives of the national organization...