Word: steps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atomic bomb, airplanes, autos, etc. were once dreams . . . Science fiction is where many scientists and engineers dream ... If an engineer, for example, has an idea which does not, at the moment, seem practical, he can write a story about it. Someone else, reading the story, might contribute a further step in the realization of the dream. But if that same engineer should write the "impossible" idea into a technical article, it probably would not be published, and if published, might mean his professional ruin . . . Louis E. GARNER JR. President...
...rehearsal, she puzzled Guest Conductor Fritz Reiner with her embellishments in the spiritual she was going to sing; she could not mark the places in the score for him so he could be sure to keep the NBC Symphony in step: "I'm sorry, I just have to do it as the spirit moves me." In the broadcast last week, the spirit was moving little Soprano Maynor-but with a faultless taste and timing that kept Conductor Reiner and her listeners moving right with...
...custom of marriage that we have overlooked. Perhaps those silver company advertisements have an element of truth to them. Or perhaps boys who have done their travelling courtesy of the U. S. Army are ready to settle down to being staid. But nevertheless, it strikes us as a step which deserves some consideration. Be careful, graduates, for you are in the shadow of a catastrophe. Let not the door close on you too easily, lest your A.B. be brought to nothing...
...Germans will do that under the new West German constitution. McCloy's job is to see that the Germans do not transgress their constitution or the broad policies of the occupying powers. If they do, he and the British and French High Commissioners will have to step in and set the Germans on the right path...
...early comers had grabbed most of the folding chairs; late arrivals sat on the step around the pink-peony-decked center fountain. By the time energetic Conductor Bales had started to whip his 30 musicians through the first number, the hall was packed...