Word: reflecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week the R.A.F.'s fast, light Mosquitoes gave Berlin its 80th bombing, but between Sept. 8 and Sept. 19 no heavy bombers went into Germany. Airmen attached no particular significance to this circumstance; they have had such lulls before, will have them again. But they were bound to reflect that their principal operations from Britain last week were "supporting operations"-Fortress attacks on the Germans' Atlantic port of Nantes, on the submarine base at La Pallice, on factories near Paris which supply engines to the Luftwaffe on all fronts; R.A.F. night attacks on the great Dunlop tire factory...
...practical problem. Said Edward T. Leech, editor of the Pittsburgh Press: "If we were to slant our news on the optimism or pessimism basis, we would then be propaganda sheets." Said Erwin D. Canham, managing editor of the Christian Science Monitor: "Headlines should be written [only] to reflect the news as accurately and graphically as possible...
...Cover) Postwar planners for whom only the sky is the limit serve a great purpose. They point to the truth that Peace on this planet is indivisible. They reflect the foresight-and the insight-that some day (100 or 1,000 years from now) the human race is likely to order its affairs as one big family, happy or quarrelsome...
...probably using infrared rays) that would enable soldiers to see objects at night but be invisible to the enemy; an improved means of signaling the identity of ground troops to friendly planes and vice versa; a simple, harmless process for darkening metals, especially aluminum, so that they will not reflect light; a method of waterproofing vehicles so that engines will not stall when they ford streams; an inexpensive, durable metal for soldiers' dishes; a means of absorbing or eliminating poisonous carbon monoxide (apparently a substantial problem to soldiers .working around motorized equipment and plane hangars); new methods of sabotage...
...Plastic trumpets (made of tenite) sound as loudly as brass ones, are truer to pitch because they do not require warming up. The plastic instruments are also easier to blow, featherweight, can be made in any color, require no polishing, can be easily mended. Further, they do not reflect light, hence cannot reveal positions to the enemy. Last week Quartermaster Corps officials looked forward to a plastic age, from trumpets to tubas, in Army bands...