Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Secretary Forrestal took two more steps toward unity. He ordered unification of recruiting, he ordered the Navy to handle all military transport on the seas, and considered assigning the Army to handle all transport on land...
...round-the-world trip, met some 35 foreign and Chinese correspondents last week. Trim and smiling in his double-breasted blue suit, Hoffman tried to be as responsive as possible. Sensibly, at the outset, he cautioned that he had no authority or qualifications to "determine or define" U.S. policy toward China. But, whatever his good intentions, the cautious, sensible-sounding words he then uttered were a kick in the teeth to the tottering Nationalist government and a boost, in effect, to the Communists...
...research is old stuff at CalTech, which has always gone in for rough and noisy engineering. But until World War II, Princeton's academic calm was almost unbroken. Toward war's end it went jet with a bang. The screaming roar of rockets and ramjets in the laboratory behind Palmer Stadium outshouted the football enthusiasts. Already the staff of the psychology department laboratory, next door, has decided to move to a quieter spot...
...tell any plane within their range (50 miles or more, depending on altitude) in what direction it is heading in relation to the station. The pilot need not listen to wearying dots and dashes in his headset. All he has to do if he wants to fly toward the omnirange is to tune to its frequency and then watch a needle on his instrument board. When the needle is ver tical, the plane is headed toward the station (see diagram...
...Hear It? In Merritton, Ont., Mrs. Ruby Lawrence called all the town councilmen at 4 a.m., had them listen to the cocks crowing outside her window, succeeded in getting action toward passage of an antinoise ordinance...