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Word: pinpointed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such as the Navy's "Bat" and "Loon") have passed the blueprint stage. But Colonel McCutcheon can already outline how their successors will be used in war. Some will have enormous ranges, striking at enemy cities and blasting them to rubble with atomic warheads. These will not need pinpoint accuracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Push-Button War | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

Paper Hat. The bell saved Greenwood. As Big Ben boomed midnight he moved an end to debate and a call to vote. Bedlam broke again. It was almost a minute before he could be heard. Then Tory Sir Gifford Fox raised a parliamentary pinpoint, contended that Greenwood was out of order because his motion was made after, not exactly at, 12 o'clock as procedure stipulates. Sir Gifford himself was hoisted on a point of procedure. He did not have on a hat-and regulations call for a member to be "sitting and covered" when raising a point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: One Should Not Peel an Orange | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...runic alphabets-is not the only tangible evidence. Holand has tried to show in earlier works (notably Westward from Vinland, 1940) that Norse "mooring stones" have also been found in the Kensington region, to say nothing of a few "medieval Norse" swords and halberds. America: 1355-1364 attempts to pinpoint the American headquarters of the rune-stone party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Holand's Crusade | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...type rockets will be intensively improved in the U.S., and presumably elsewhere. Radio controls are being refined; atomic warheads will make the pinpoint accuracy of World War II unnecessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Extra-Atmospheric War | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...peacetime, it can guide radar-less vessels to safety with pinpoint accuracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Peacetime Radar | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

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