Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inhabitants, and it is an inconvenient object for them to study. It is too big to be observed from one or a few places. Its surface is covered with rapidly moving fluids. Its atmosphere swirls with big and little storms. Its oceans are stirred by currents. Its solid crust shakes like jelly, and its plastic interior probably flows slowly in largely unknown ways. Influence? from the sun and beyond the sun affect the passive earth. Cosmic rays from the depths of space beat upon it, and meteors plunge like fireflies into its atmosphere. Its magnetic field fluctuates slightly; so does...
...direction and its motion through the water, they tried to keep track of its position. The system did not work very well, chiefly because of crude instruments and because the effect of ocean currents was often unknown. But if a ship could have measured accurately its motion across the solid ocean bottom instead of the fluid surface, dead reckoning would have brought it to any harbor through the thickest...
...news developed by its 1.750 member newspapers and thus, in effect, draws on a vast pool of news that no wire service could produce independently. The U.P. has no such re-use agreement with client newspapers in the U.S., and as a result often ignores or skimps many solid, second-string stories; in covering state governments, for example, or long-drawn stories such as murder trials, the U.P. is often badly outclassed by A.P. On most fast-breaking local stories, on the other hand, U.P. tends to hunt down the news more aggressively than slower-moving A.P., and is often...
...believe she has Negro blood, drags the governor's son into sudden paternity. Her half brother (James Mason), who really does have Negro blood, imagines that he is also a cuckold, and so murders his supposed rival in a fit of pique. The movie's single solid acting job is by John Williams as a shrewd constabulary chief. The movie gets no distance at all in solving Santa Marta's color problem, but the color photography is beautiful...
...held every post from sales clerk to basement-store manager. Like his son, chunky Fred Lazarus ("retailing is our life") also worked up from the basement. He became Federated's No. 1 man in 1945, transformed the corporation from a loosely knit cross-ownership of stock to a solid chain and trebled its sales by buying new stores. He will continue as top man, has no plans to retire, hopes this year to guide Federated to the U.S. department-store sales lead over front-running Allied Stores Corp...