Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said, the best-fed cats are the sleekest. Can it be that the systematic starvation to which the master race subjected the people of Europe and the stolen plenty in which they themselves wallowed may have been responsible...
...thoughts and things were split. The sudden achievement of victory was a mercy, to the Japanese no less than to the United Nations; but mercy born of a ruthless force beyond anything in human chronicle. The race had been won, the weapon had been used by those on whom civilization could best hope to depend; but the demonstration of power against living creatures instead of dead matter created a bottomless wound in the living conscience of the race. The rational mind had won the most Promethean of its conquests over nature, and had put into the hands of common...
...That is why we felt compelled to undertake the long and uncertain and costly labor of discovery and production. We won the race of discovery...
Partnership Formed. The U.S. entered the atom race in the fall of 1939 when Franklin Roosevelt appointed an informal "Advisory Committee on Uranium." It was a small project until the Nazi panzers roared over France. Then the world was struck by a terrible urgency. On Oct. 11, 1941, nearly two months before Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt wrote to Winston Churchill, offering British nuclear physicists a plan to work in the U.S. Churchill accepted. The U.S. and Britain were partners...
...Real Race. For scientists and laymen alike, this week's historic blast was the first indication of the progress made in the greatest and most-secret research race of the war. Except for a few breathless tales of mysterious walled laboratories and factories whose workers were interned for the duration, scarcely a word leaked...