Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Medal Winner. The committee went after other high officers. It cited "the decoration with the Legion of Merit of a colonel in the Engineer Corps who had so badly mismanaged the only source of replacement parts for engineers' equipment in the world that the War Department had to send in a special team to clean up the depot." And it ridiculed a general who explained that "he located a hospital in a swamp because he rode over the land on horseback in winter and didn't notice...
...feature in Scripps-Howard's tabloid Rocky Mountain News, had received a chiding note from the wife of an Eastern oilman. "When Denver women speak," it sniffed, "it sounds to me like the grinding of a buzz saw. Their voices are harsh and grating. They send shivers up my spine. Even those who have gone to such good Eastern schools as Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, Smith, etc., speak in an absolutely rude and unrefined manner...
...nation needs at least 20,000 more mental doctors. No more than 500 a year can be trained in existing institutes and medical schools. The council will build a $7.500,000 mental health institute for training and research in Bethesda, Md., help medical schools' enlarge their psychiatry departments, send demonstration teams to state mental hospitals...
...something of a job getting the bag closed, even after taking some of the stuff out and hiding it beneath a note to his roommate to send it home for him. Vag kicked the valise over to the door and looked around the room. He would have liked to take those liquor bottles on the mantle. They really weren't empty. He looked at the banners on the wall. Kind of moth-eaten, but still good to see. What the hell, he thought, opening the door. He'd done this before. Going out the door was like walking into...
While the "drone" circles or dives at the end of its radio leash, a television tube, like an unwinking eye, watches the instrument panel, sends the readings of every dial to the screen in the radio truck. Other instruments send their readings direct on their own radio channels, recording on a moving paper strip such things as the flutter of the plane's wings, or the changing strain on its surfaces...