Word: pinpoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pearl Harbor, says Kimmel, but not by his fault. The trouble, he says, was that Washington never told him what was cooking or where and when it might boil over. All through November, for instance, Washington was reading intercepted messages in which the Japanese consulate in Hawaii sent Tokyo pinpoint locations of Pearl Harbor warships. Says Kimmel: "The information received during the ten days preceding the attack clearly pointed to the Fleet at Pearl Harbor as the Japanese objective, yet not one word of warning and none of this information was given to the Hawaiian Commanders...
...HOSE words, by Critic Andre - Malraux, pinpoint one of the most important happenings in art history. Burgeoning now, it has been preparing for 500 years. Art reproduction dates back to the woodblock illustrations of the 15th century. In the 16th, the great Raphael was so impressed by the possibilities of copper engraving that he issued some prints from his own designs. By the end of the 19th, Currier & Ives had flooded the U.S. with a choice of 7,500 hand-colored lithographs ("Juvenile, Domestic, Love Scenes, Kittens and Puppies, Ladies Heads, Catholic Religious, Patriotic, Landscapes, Vessels, Comic, School Rewards...
...microscope, the X rays are generated by an electron beam that is focused by electronic lenses on a spot only one-100,000th of an inch in diameter, 300 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. X rays coming from this tiny pinpoint cast shadows so sharp that they keep their definition even when thrown on a fluorescent screen or photographic film with 1,500 diameters of magnification...
...from Lieut. Curtis R. Ehlert of the Air Force, who wrote: "I realize you are aware of your worldwide readership, but in case your records don't show it, you can place a pin in the map near Thule, Greenland, on the icecap." Lieut. Ehlert explained how this pinpoint got there: "My pilot and I are a crew for an F94 Starfire interceptor stationed at Thule. We were going through the final test of our survival training by living for two days in a snow and ice shelter that we had built, using the equipment that we carry...
...meet farmers on their home ground, each of Progressive Farmer's five editions concentrates on specific states, thus allows the magazine to pinpoint crop, land and cattle advice. When Poe first took over the magazine, farmers "believed more in the moon than they did in the agricultural colleges." Poe spurred the fight to change all that. Progressive Farmer educated farmers to diversify their farming ("Don't try to farm with one arm"), demanded "more doctors for rural areas," and worked for a better deal for the Negro ("We must fight for a much fairer deal for the Negro...