Word: signpost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buck called 'the coming of age of research" a fundamental quality factor of modern education which the Commission typically underemphasized in its enthusiasm for quantity. The Report in many places, he added, "is inconsistent and inaccurate." It nevertheless serves as a "signpost," In minimizing the dangers of "control" from the inevitable Federal aid, Buck stated his fear of influence upon freedom 'to experiment and to excel...
This week at the University of Minnesota, two top-level professors-Dr. Robert G. Green, expert in bacteriology and immunology, and Dr. John J. Bittner, geneticist and cancer biologist-nailed up an important signpost in medicine's fight against cancer. They reported that they had discovered: 1) a filterable virus which definitely causes breast cancer in mice; 2) an anti-cancer serum which kills the mouse cancer cells, in test tubes...
Manus is still growing. Steam shovels and bulldozers are clearing the way for new docks. But, like the other improvised bases in the Pacific, Manus may never be quite finished. Said an admiral: "Our ambition is to leave unfinished bases all the way across the Pacific to Japan." A signpost on Manus reads: "Tokyo, 2,000 miles; Manila, 1,670 miles...
...Atlantic Charter remains the guiding signpost, expressing the vast body of opinion among all the powers now fighting together against tyranny. [But] the Atlantic Charter in no way binds us about the future of Germany. It has no quality of a bargain or contract with our enemy...
...This is the island where Marine anti-aircraft gunners have hammered up a signpost labeled 'Tokyo,' and painted another that reads 'Golden Gate in '48, breadline...