Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unfortunately, international affairs has become a contest these days, with the East lined up against the West. I think it is probably right to say that the captain and quarterback on our side is Uncle Sam. I am not sure exactly what position Canada plays...
...villagers of Minsk in Czarist Russia, little Morris Raphael Cohen seemed definitely feebleminded. He was painfully shy, so listless, awkward, and clumsy that neighbors called him Kalyé-keh (a colloquialism for half-wit). Only his mother really knew him. "Never mind," she would say when people taunted him. "Some day they will all be proud to have talked to my Meisheleh...
...Army's record-breaker was made out of a German V2, with its warhead replaced by the small, U.S.-developed "WAC Corporal" rocket. When the combination reached a certain height (the Army did not say how high), the WAC Corporal was fired by electronic control. It zipped out of the V-2's nose added its own speed to that of the V2, and reached 5,000 m.p.h. The empty V-2 fell 20 miles from the firing place; the WAC Corporal was tracked by instruments, apparently fell about 80 miles north of White Sands. Four days later...
Besides being eager to set this record, U.S. rocketeers may have had a more practical motive. The services are trying to get Congress to authorize a 3,000-mile guided-missile range (TIME, Feb. 28). They say that the White Sands range (150 miles long) is already much too small. This week's feat proved it. If the two-stage rocket had been fired at the proper angle for maximum range, instead of nearly straight up, the WAC Corporal would probably have landed something like 500 miles from the firing point...
Doctors are still far from being able to say what causes cancer, but they suspect many things. Last week, for the first time, the American Cancer Society and the U.S. Public Health Service's National Cancer Institute got together for a national cancer conference. For three days some 400 experts talked things over in Memphis' Hotel Peabody, where, between sessions, they chatted, smoked, and watched the tamed wild ducks swimming in the lobby fountain...