Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...timber prices are rising in England, the alert army wife gives the general a shrewd tip: "Have the Germans chop down their forests around the city and ship the wood to be sold in England. What have you been appointed a general for if you can't make use...
...counter jamming is to use so many frequencies that the opponent cannot obliterate them all. The Voice now uses 36 stations and the BBC 25. They change their frequencies suddenly and often, instructing the Russian listeners to "search all short-wave bands." This keeps the jammers on the jump. It takes them about twelve seconds on the average to find and jam a dodging program. In the unjammed interval, an alert Russian listener may sometimes pick up a tidbit of news...
...cats, ostriches and insanity, the Bagdad market and the Berlin airlift, eruptions of volcanoes, bathyspheres and the stratosphere, fishing, fine arts and the sex life of savages. Peripatetic, insatiably curious Gilbert Grosvenor has written 300 articles and taken 200 of the photographs. He was the first U.S. editor to use natural color photographs (a 24-page spread on China and Korea...
...enthusiasm is more like a beginning student's than a teacher's; after 30 years of painting she still delights in the problems and sparkles with the possibilities of art. "I use the most awful criterion for my own work," she says. "I ask, 'Is it so?' A thing may be just as nicely rendered, just as well composed, as can be, and yet be completely...
Thanks to the hospitality of neighbor sailors at MIT, Crimson yactsmen have never had to wish for boats. Harvard sailors, graced with early afternoon use of institute's fleet of 45 dinghles have consistently produced fine sailing teams ever since college yachting gained popularity over 20 years...