Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sitting at his desk in London, Jan Smuts's thoughts are first of all on the coming shape of Europe, in which he foresees Russia as the colossus, France as a lesser nation, Britain in need of a fresh orientation of power. He says, emphasizing his words by drawing, with his index finger, neat holistic circles in the air: "The axis of the new world, the greatest new development today, is the cooperation of America and the Commonwealth...
...various as their color. A man may be unable to judge the speed of distant motion, yet be a good inspector of small parts. Most eyes have an aptitude for some special type of vision -distant or near, wide or narrow angled; or for the judgment of space, shape or motion; or for rapid change of focus. Industry stands to profit by selecting eyes for special jobs, adjust jobs to the eyes available...
Target: Roadbeds. On the map of battle, Tokyo's first objective now be gan to assume shape: full control of the Peiping-Hankow railway. In 1938, the Chinese breached the Yellow river dikes, kept the enemy from this prize; last week, Japanese columns driving from north and south seemed to be close to attaining...
Well-informed correspondents, pledged to secrecy about some aspects of the recent discussions in London, thought that the reliable Whitehall Letter was on the diplomatic beam when it said: "Unofficial agreement on all major problems of the peace, including the likely shape and form of a new League of Nations with Britain, the United States, and Soviet Russia as key members, was reached...
Next year what Dr. Fleming knew about the mold's bacteria-baiting by-product appeared in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. He had found out that the mold was some kind of Penicillium (from the Latin for pencil-the shape of the magnified mold). He named its byproduct penicillin...