Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee, these impassioned words seemed scarcely to fit the case. Snapped Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney: "A completely doctrinaire and unrealistic attitude ... It is not a question of whether an individual may attend a school or speak freely. The issue is whether AEC shall use public funds to educate persons who are members of an organization pledged to overthrow our government...
...hectares, pays roughly one-third of his income in rental. The average wheat crop is about four bushels per hectare (the U.S. average is 45 bushels). The soil is badly eroded. The tenants have never heard of insecticides; few know of any fertilizer other than manure, which they rarely use. They cannot afford plows; instead they hammer at the wretched soil with picks...
...each item on sale, so that the objects might be returned to Petain. The offer was turned down. The indignant audience burst into the Marseillaise. Fifty policemen finally cleared the hall. Once more the Marshal's belongings would gather dust. The old man would scarcely have found use for them, anyway...
...turbojets that drive fighter airplanes. Their inside works are very like the jets', but instead of putting all their propulsive energy into a blast of hot gas shot out the tailpipe, they extract some of it by means of a turbine set in the blast and use it to drive a conventional propeller. This compromise gives turboprops some advantage. They are simpler and lighter than piston engines, and they burn cheap, nonexplosive kerosene instead of high-octane gas. Unlike turbojets, they do not have to fly at extremely high speeds to operate efficiently. At the speeds practical for present...
Easy Essays. Five years ago, Peter Maurin, who had stripped himself of everything else, lost the use of his mind, through arteriosclerosis of the brain. Virtually unable to think or talk, Maurin numbly lived out the end of his life at one of the communal farms he helped build near Newburgh, N.Y. But every issue of the Catholic Worker has carried at least one of the old "Easy Essays," and readers unaware of Maurin's illness have often written in to congratulate him on their timeliness. Wrote...