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Word: subbed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coming in the midst of the forum series which the Council has been sponsoring for public relations purposes this year is a tea for all men interested in working on the committees and sub-committees which form the Council's executive system. The "get acquainted" affair will be at 4 p.m. today in Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Get Acquainted Tea at 4 p.m. | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

...Senate's inquiries into the activities of Washington five per centers probably will not be resumed this year, Senator Clyde Hoey (D-N.C.) said yesterday. Hoey, who heads the investigating sub-committee, said that only unexpected developments would reopen hearings this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yanks Nip sox, Face Flock in Series; Steel, Coal Workers Begin Walkout | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...think of it in more practical terms-it is their biggest payroll and a financial well which waters the city and a great part of the country around it. This summer, with a postwar peak of 26,000 employees working on B-50s, on doubledecked Strato-cruisers and on sub assemblies for its jet-powered B-47, it was supporting one in seven families in Seattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON: Stop, Thief! | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Every veteran of submarine war patrols has stories of false "enemy contacts" reported by underwater detecting devices. If the signals were only reflections of the high-frequency sound waves sent out by the sub itself, false alarms could easily be caused by whales or schools of fish. But far more baffling were the cases in which a different sound impulse was recorded. This, it seemed, might be the enemy's own detection device at work. Many a crew was called to battle stations ready for deep-sea combat, only to learn that the signals had been lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pig-Boats & Whales | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...possible conclusion: whales and their kin were the real inventors of sonar.* What they used it for, men can only guess. Mrs. Fish found apparent confirmation of the theory in the pig-boats' logs: when a sub jammed the "enemy's signal by sending out its own sound waves, the transmission stopped. Evidently the whales were confused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pig-Boats & Whales | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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