Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor's bill would not transform the barren land of British mining into a Utopia. Shafts would still be too narrow for modern machinery. Antiquated methods, deep tunnels, high accident rates would still plague the sick British industry. Bitter miners would continue slowdowns and flash strikes...
...electron-volts. This is practically no energy at all, said Professor Wheeler. From outside the earth's atmosphere a wealth of high-energy particles is constantly showering down. By studying these cosmic rays, Professor Wheeler believes, we may learn the ultimate secret: how to totally transform matter-any & every kind of matter-into energy...
...Wall Street Men. Behind his huge desk, gazing skeptically over the top of his pipe and only occasionally flaring into tightlipped, concise profanity, Forrestal wrought some changes. One of them was to transform the Navy into a businesslike partnership between civilians and brass hats, drawing into the firm such men as regular Navyman Admiral Richard S. Edwards, on the one hand, and brilliant H. (for Herman) Struve Hensel, also a graduate of Princeton, ex-Wall Street attorney, on the other. Roosevelt lifted Hensel out of the Navy's Legal Department into an Assistant Secretaryship. There are many and various...
...helped bring the Czechs and the Slovaks out of Habsburg domination, transform the country into Central Europe's prosperous bastion of democracy. He had not despaired when the Nazi blackout descended on his 10,000,000 Slav countrymen. Now he was helping them turn on the lights again. But they were different lights, and what was emerging into view was not yet clear...
...famed Outline for Industrial Development. In the dark days at Chungking, when victory seemed so remote, planning had been the food of hope. Blueprints had been polished and refined. In 1941, the Generalissimo had distilled what will become China's first long-range plan to transform herself into a modern industrial power...