Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stouthearted Britons might well cry, with Dr. Johnson, "Old England is lost!" From London last week came dread tidings of a changing land: tj In a report deemed a "classic" by Minister Sir Guy Nott-Bower, the British Ministry of Fuel and Power launched an all-out attack on Britain's 28 million-odd cherished open fireplaces. The filthy things, said the report, not only waste coal and give no heat, but definitely bring on lung diseases. * Recommended: central heating with gas, electricity or "other systems that burn smokeless, solid fuel...
Marshall dates his book 1912-14 and in a prefatory note says carefully: "I understand that the abuses so common thirty years ago no longer exist." But Schooldays reminded its readers that the Government's Fleming Report (TIME, Aug. 7, 1944), urging that public schools admit Judy O'Grady's kids too, was still gathering dust...
...Franciscans turned their attention to a lengthy municipal psychiatric report on the question: "What makes women promiscuous?" Some reasons, based on interviews with 365 girls over a period of 17 months: loneliness, boredom, curiosity, spite, emotional dependence, a desire to conquer, maladaptation, poor environment, broken homes, the desire to hold a man's affections. Only 5% were interested in money, and then as an afterthought...
This cryptic statement was the heart & soul of the State Department's Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy (see INTERNATIONAL). Upon the "denaturing" depended the effectiveness of the Plan, which proposed to distribute the "harmless" materials freely...
...rocket's nose are instruments to record the composition of the upper atmosphere, its temperature, pressure and density. Later the Corporal may report on cosmic ray and meteoric conditions, and possibly provide new spectroscopic photographs of astral phenomena unimpeded by the optical distortion of the lower atmosphere. Heretofore the best information on the upper air has been supplied by radio-equipped weather balloons which level off some 20 miles below the Corporal's recorded ceiling...