Word: recordation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, pressed for an explanation about that 1941 luncheon, the Foreign Office declared, with a slight frog in its throat, that its "research had produced no record of any such meeting." Winston
After hearing Watson and Finney present both sides of the case, the Band in a near-unanimous vote put itself on record as unwilling to play at any of its seven Commencement engagements unless board were granted for the three days in question...
Corey Wynn's freshman tennis charges ended their season yesterday on an unhappy note at the Soldiers Field courts by losing to the Dartmouth freshmen, 5 to 4. This brought the season to a close with an eight and three record...
...carrier, scheduled to be laid down in early April, was superfluous and eminently vulnerable. The airmen said the cost of the ship was too high for its usefulness, that it was an infringement on their "rightful control of strategic bombing." The Navy fought back, citing the fine record of its carriers in the World War II Pacific campaigns. Then the Air Force appeared with its trump card...
...halve the B-36 contracts. This was squelched when the Air Force appeared happily bearing the results of its tests. The B-36 had left standard jets gasping for air at its 40,000 foot operating altitude; even the F-86, which had grabbed the world's speed record, could not keep up with it at this height. The tests convinced Secretary Johnson and Congress, in that order; on April 23, the keel of the "United States" was ordered off the ways...