Word: reference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shown a hydroelectric dam in the Auvergne Mountains. Behind these comings & goings was potential trouble in France's North African empire and the specter of France's Syrian debacle (epitomized in the Damascus parliament building wrecked-see cut -by French mortars in an attack which Syrians refer to as "Syria's Pearl Harbor"). North Africa was restive. Like Frenchmen, Moroccans, Algerians and Tunisians were still worried about the food shortage. Last year, arid Morocco had its worst drought since 1904. This year's crop will be sufficient only for seed. And Algeria, where bloody revolts were...
...Bush's "thinking" machine, which he calls "memex," would be a desk with a microfilm library inside and several translucent screens on top. In the library would be filed books, newspapers, notes, memoranda, photographs, etc. To refer to any item, a user would tap its code number on a keyboard-like dialing a phone number -and it would be projected on one of the screens. He could read page by page or skim. By means of dry photography (like facsimile), he could write marginal notes on the screen and have them reproduced on the microfilm...
...Rightist Manner. In Greece the British refer to the EAM-ELAS revolt as "The Trouble," the Americans call it "The Revolution," while the Greeks describe it as "The Mutiny...
...your interesting article on the God-Emperor of Japan [TIME, May 21], you refer to Ambassador Grew's analogy of the Japanese society as a beehive with the Emperor as the queen bee. You say: "The implications of this analogy are clear. The Emperor institution . . . must be retained to save the Japanese nation from disintegration...
...common noun instead of a capital "D" as a proper noun, denoting a trademark which it is. (It's like saying joe doakes, smoking a camel, drove off in his ford to buy some listerine.) On p.92, in an item about a spy movie, you refer to "hidden dictaphones" when you mean a secret listening device. Well, Dictaphone just isn't that kind of machine and Dictograph, a trademarked voice-transmitting device, isn't really used by criminal investigators, local or federal, to overhear remote conversations. (They usually have their own small delicate apparatus privately built...