Word: tunnell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national defense, its cost is insignificant. It can, it must, be continued until there is a stability in Europe which assures peace." General Clay did not try to guess when that time would come. But last week he thought he could see the light at the end of the tunnel. Said he: "There is no easy road to lasting peace. It cannot come overnight. Nor can it be obtained by written agreements left to be interpreted by each participant in his own way. It can only come about when the free peoples of the world are strong and thus able...
...missed most of an inning because FCCommissioner Frieda Hennock was posing for news pictures in front of the screen. The New York Star's Ernest Barcella was chiefly concerned about what had happened to Warren Spahn: "He was pitching for the Braves when we entered a tunnel. When we picked up the game again Spahn was missing for good. It developed he had been batted from...
...generally enter their trade in search of the quiet life, Boston-born Carl Mydans has had a more than spectacular career since he came with TIME, Inc. in 1936, as a LIFE photographer. One of his early jobs was a story on New York City's Queens-Midtown tunnel, where he worked with the .sandhogs below the bed of the East River, got the bends, was revived, went back for more. He covered the Russo-Finnish war in 1940, covered the retreat of the French government from Paris to Bordeaux, then 15,000 miles and 18 months later, shot...
...Tunnel from the Sun. There may be many different primary rays. Some, thinks Dr. S. E. Forbush of the Carnegie Institution, may come from the sun. There are plenty of high-speed particles in the sun, but ordinarily they cannot escape into space because of the sun's powerful magnetic field. But sunspots, which are whirling solar hurricanes, have magnetic fields of their own. Sometimes these cancel the sun's general field, making a narrow, nonmagnetic tunnel through which the particles escape. Dr. Forbush claimed to have observed sudden increases of cosmic radiation when such a tunnel happened...
...Glorig became suspicious of the test, made 173 experiments with it in a special "speech tunnel" with soundproofed walls and ceilings. He told a meeting of hearing specialists at the center last week that the hearing ability of the men tested varied widely even when the same tester used the same words to the same man, and did his best to keep his voice at the same pitch...