Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only a few days before the crash of the jet-propelled YB-49, the Civil Aeronautics Administration granted an "Approved Type Certificate" to the Allison model 400-C4 jet engine, first jet engine approved for civilian use...
...this final Nemesis overtakes the pretensions of modern man, it will not be his science that has betrayed him, but rather the complete prostration of his moral values . . . Our generation is presented with what may well be the final choice between the use of knowledge to build a rational world or its use to arm, for one last desperate affray, the savage and uncivilized passions of mankind...
...length by Congress. Before the Tribune twisted them, the facts were these: last January Congress had approved the Smith-Mundt bill, which set up a bureau to run the Voice of America and otherwise see that the U.S. story is told abroad. The bill called for the widest use of private agencies in telling that story. The free, nongovernmental press, said Congressmen who toured Europe last summer, was the best weapon against Russia's propaganda...
...field (32) in 86 years. Bubbled the fabulously rich, rotund Aga Khan, who had bought a half-interest in the horse only a few weeks ago: "I am delighted." Said one Frenchman, who came over for the race by boat and flew back after winning ?100: "In France I use a pin to pick winners. In England I pick French horses." After the race there was talk-most of it idle-that a special match race would be arranged between My Love and Citation, the U.S. wonder horse...
...Rome Franciscans from the Holy Land announced their intention to raise a militia of from 500 to 1,000 Christian volunteers of all nationalities to help the 408 friars now in Palestine in protecting the shrines under their control from looting and from Arabs or Jews who would use them for military purposes...