Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the new U.S. Ambassador, Stanton Griffis, a former businessman and captain on the U.S. General Staff during the World War I, decided to try undiplomatic tactics. In an upper room of the Embassy, he installed two short-wave radios, set them at different wavelengths to insure round-the-clock squawking. He was simply testing, he explained, the effect of varying weather conditions. The squatters have admitted that the static is getting on their nerves, especially when two squalling babies provide an infantile obbligato...
Canada's biggest tourist year set new records. Long-term visitors (48 hours or more) from the U.S. had rolled across the border in August in more than 400,000 automobiles, up 30% from August 1946. Province after province reported bulging tourist figures; only Saskatchewan, short of tourist attractions and long on bad " roads, was the exception. Squawked a Detroiter to the Regina Leader-Post: "Your roads are horrible ; absolutely terrible. We even got stuck...
Fruit-fly generations are short: even recessive mutations show up fairly quickly. Human mutations may not do their work for thousands of years. But, says Dr. Muller, "finally they must cause the dying out of one of the descendent individuals that carries the harmful mutation, either through his direct death ... or through his failing to reproduce-in either case his 'genetic death...
...Soviet Academician Trofim Denisovich Lysenko. Lysenko's basic idea seems to be that living forms (like nations) need to be shaken up by a kind of genetic revolution. Thus shaken, a tomato or wheat plant is capable of very rapid development. In proving this thesis, Lysenko is short on controlled experimentation and long on thundering Marxist phrases like "The Liquidation of the Conservatism of the Nature of Organisms" (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946). Many non-Communist geneticists consider him a politically motivated fraud...
...time was Christmas Day minus two, 1944; the place, five miles from Bastogne. The swart, short-legged photographer got out of his jeep, climbed an embankment and fired away with his long-lens Contax at some G.I.s advancing across a snow-covered field. Suddenly one yelled and leveled a Tommy...