Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mayor LaGuardia, echoing this gloomy prediction, wondered why youths should now be learning such trades as plumbing, drafting, electricity, and sheet-metal work in the city's Building Trades High School when "tens of thousands" of servicemen are being trained in them. "Why train more people for the next...
Last week neither the Russians nor the Germans said anything about some thing happening or about to happen on the Warsaw-Vistula front. The Germans alone told of something happening in the Latvian pocket above Riga. Berlin said the Red Army had "sacrificed tens of thousands of men" to gain...
Meantime Colby was becoming famous and familiar in her own right. Like many dominant women, she had (and is still embarrassed by) heavy legs and a rather unimpressive figure. So she never modeled such commodities as bathing suits or lingerie or stockings. But she became easily the nation's...
But the characterizations in Captain from Castile are too sharp, the historical material too exact, to allow the book to be dismissed as merely a skillful costume thriller. Its language is sometimes too high flown, its plot too intricate and too neat, to satisfy the exacting requirements of serious literature...
The speculative London report suggested that the Nazis are using the same pressure principle to crush atoms. The crusher: A "Neuman" demolition charge, which explodes inward instead of outward. Used in a sphere, the Neuman charge might develop pressures of tens of thousands of tons per square inch at the...