Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fire and hit." Ten minutes later she messaged: "Still under heavy fire." At midnight the moon set, giving the Amethyst an advantage of 7¼ hours of darkness. About 1 a.m., Communist batteries at the Kiangyin forts opened up on the Amethyst. Kiangyin was the critical point. To get past, the Amethyst had to crash a blockading boom across the river. Once more she messaged: "Under heavy fire nearing the boom...
...shares his course with three other professors, each with his own ideas on teaching science to the layman. Conant's device is to use a sort of case method. If pupils can understand how science solved specific problems in the past, he thinks, they will soon understand the scientific method in general...
This week visitors to Washington's National Gallery were seeing South Africa as it looked to 53 of the Dominion's own painters and sculptors. For historical background there were a score of 18th and 19th Century canvases which showed glimpses of South Africa's colonial past. But most of the work was by contemporaries and reflected present-day Africa-its raw, green hills, adobe towns and sprouting cities...
Many Hollywood stars are stagestruck. To fill their yearning for the feel of an old-fashioned stage, some cinemactors take an occasional fling at Broadway. Others settle for Eastern summer stock or the hopeful little theaters that spring up in & around Los Angeles. In the past two years so many have trod the boards of a high-school auditorium in La Jolla, Calif., 100 miles south of Hollywood, that it has become the nation's most star-studded summer theater...
...week, Big Steel's Chairman Irving S. Olds found himself in something of a psychological box. The hearings opened just as U.S. Steel issued its mid-year earnings report to stockholders. Since profits were 76% above 1948's first half, Olds had a hard time explaining that past profits were no remedy for the steel industry's present situation, with orders having fallen off so much that production had been cut back 30% in a matter of ten weeks...