Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevens, said Wilson Jainsen, president of the company, "was renowned as a specialist in surety-bond work." Besides surety bonds, Wallace Stevens had another speciality that brought him worldwide renown. He was one of the finest poets of of a generation whose special need for poetry Wallace Stevens well understood...
...Force Secretary was upset and disturbed regarding the position taken by R.C.A. Then, Ewing testified, in early January, "I received a telephone call from Washington from a man who identified himself as the general counsel of the Air Force, Mr. John A. Johnson . . . He said that he had understood that R.C.A. was troubled about this proposed contract with Mulligan & Co. and that he was pre pared to write a letter opinion and give it to R.C.A. stating that he saw no legal reason why the contract could not be entered into...
Scapegoat at Hand. In his hour of heretical glory three years ago, Texas Governor Allan Shivers stood tall in the political saddle. Politically, the big state of Texas lay in his pocket. But despite the wave of Eisenhowerism, Texas remained solidly Democratic. No one understood this better than rebel Shivers, as he watched his power dissolve behind him during the post-election years. Under Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House (and single head of the Texas faithful, now that illness has removed Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson from the arena), the Democratic loyalists gathered in new vigor to nibble...
Global Meteorology. As soon as a satellite is circling on its orbit, immediate and practical benefits will flow down from it. Solar radiation, now only partially understood, is responsible for the earth's weather. The additional information reported by a satellite will be of enormous value to meteorologists. So will its reports on the earth's cloud cover. They may result in global weather forecasts good for months ahead. Information on solar rays and particles will clear up many mysteries about the electrified layers in the atmosphere that affect radio transmission...
First to fall ill was a Cleveland social worker. Her symptoms fitted infectious mononucleosis. also called glandular fever. This is a little-understood (presumably viral) infection that is maddeningly persistent but rarely fatal, sometimes runs like a plague through institutions. That is what it did. Nurses at the hospital were soon dropping like flies: ten one day, 15 another. With 56 nurses and 23 other staff members out. the famed old Royal Free had to shut its doors for the first time in its history, transferred most of its 240 patients to other hospitals...