Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experienced U.S. observers reported last week on two eastern European nations-both in the Russian sphere, both struggling to create a new life...
...separate dissent, Justice Jackson added that the majority decision gave to , labor "an arbitrary dominance" over the economic sphere which it controls-a dominance which "labor so long, so bitterly and so rightly asserted should belong...
...abroad, to keep U.S. officials fully informed of doings at home, to help in psychological warfare by radio and by the preparation of leaflets to be dropped over enemy lines or into occupied territories. In the opinion of most observers, it had done a fairly effective job in a sphere which neither the Army nor the State Depart ment was set up to handle...
Regions & Spheres. Of the victorious powers, only the Big Three have an industrial plant big enough and varied enough to support modern war. This sharp concentration naturally produced a tendency for other states to group themselves around the three strong ones, and for the three Great Powers to try to run things in their own regions. Because their power is naval and their vital interests are worldwide, the British are not so deeply enmeshed in "regionalism" as the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The Soviet Union is creating a "sphere of influence" in the states along its borders...
...third tunnel is the Army Ordnance's, in the Ballistics Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.; it will be used to study bombs, shells and rockets. Air is compressed into a 32-ft. steel sphere, then released through a nozzle at air speeds up to 3,000 m.p.h. into a one-foot test chamber. Here small but exact brass models are connected to instruments which measure their lift in the air stream, their drag (resistance to air flow) and their stability (tendency to yaw or tumble). High-speed photographs of their action and of the air flow...