Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for their own expansive claims, which Allied reports persistently deflated, the Nazis had up to last week produced no conclusive proof of their boast that Air Power can smash Sea Power. The Allied fleet had landed troops at two main points. It took them off again. As the warships and transports steamed away, the German Air Force realized that there went its last chance, for perhaps some time, to carry out a long-standing order from Field Marshall Hermann Goring: at whatever cost, sink a battleship...
After eight months the war had come home to England with a smash-bang. Some $400,000 damage had been done to English property. Casualties were a middle-aged Clacton couple, killed in their sleep when the bomber fell, and 162 curious townsfolk injured when she exploded. None was hurt who obeyed the rules, took cover in cellars, lay doggo until the all clear signal. A raid shelter a few yards from the crater was unharmed. While firemen and volunteers were clearing away the ruins, three babies were born in a half-smashed Clacton maternity home. They will have company...
...Knight tries to give each of his papers a personality of its own, favors much local news. His Miami paper is Democratic, his Akron paper Independent. During Akron's big strike in 1936, he splashed a strongly worded Page One editorial at a vigilante group which wanted to smash the picket line and open the plant, rode out the protests, saw the strike settled two weeks later. As an active head of the Free Press he plans to nurse it gently from a rock-ribbed, standpat Republicanism to a more Independent demeanor, for he likes to be free...
...partial answer to the question "Why smash atoms?" is obvious from this fact. Radium has long been used in the treatment of cancerous diseases, its chief disadvantage being its often prohibitive expense. The cyclotron can make a simple substance radio-active at comparatively small cost...
...Soloman writes in his book, "A tall building will not stand without a foundation. For new development we must have further knowledge. Fundamental research often leads to developments which have immediate practical application in the increase of well being or the relief of sickness. That is why we smash atoms...