Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...direct stroke from upper left to lower right was made first...
...relatively long radio waves (one and a half meters) used early in the war had serious shortcomings: 1) they gave only a crude, distorted echo; 2) they had some blind spots, especially close to the ground; 3) they required huge "bedspring" antennae. Microwaves solved all these problems at one stroke. These tiny waves, which are measured in centimeters, can be formed into a beam precise enough to detect the periscope of a submerged submarine...
...year-old Anthony Trollope. dean of British novelists, friend of Thackeray and George Eliot, suffered a fatal paralytic stroke. One year later, his many devoted readers were shocked by what they considered one of the most vulgar books they had ever read-Author Trollope's posthumously-published Autobiography...
Clarence Decatur Howe, Canada's prow-chinned, aggressive Minister of Reconstruction, announced a good deal for the Dominion: the sale of the $6,000,000 Government-owned Victory Aircraft Company at Malton (near Toronto). At one stroke he: 1) disposed of a big wartime property; 2) cut Canada in for a share of the postwar plane-manufacturing business...
...Pasadena, beauteous Brenda seemed a cinch to win the Pacific Coast A.A.U. 100-yd. free-style championship, with arch-rival Ann not entered in the race. But Brenda had to put every last ounce of energy into the final lap to beat Marilyn Sahner of San Francisco by a stroke in 1:02.3. That clipped two-tenths of a second off Ann Curtis' U.S. record...