Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Says Article 9 of Japan's new constitution: ". . . The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. In order to accomplish [this aim, arms] will never be maintained...
...Desdemona." For weeks the Maestro had been getting set for his one opera broadcast of the year. He had hand-picked his singers, rehearsed them relentlessly in his dressing room, accompanying them on the piano himself. There were few big bright names in his cast-he preferred to use singers he could mold in his own way: stressing first expressiveness, then diction, and lastly voice. He had heard the Philadelphia La Scala Soprano Herva Nelli sing last summer, and announced, "This is Desdemona." She told him she had never sung the role. Toscanini snapped: "Good. I'll teach...
Last week, Flight Refuelling Ltd., a British company, was about to test flying tankers on the air's toughest main line: the stormy, midwinter North Atlantic. If the trials (scheduled for this month) are successful, refueling may eventually come into general use on long-distance airlines...
Military airmen are watching the experiments closely. Jet engines (necessary for the new high speeds) have cut the range of bombers. The strategic bombing missions of World War III may have to use flying tankers, rising from forward bases and meeting the bombers part way to their faraway targets...
...mere fun & games for the chimps and the psychologist. The scientific purpose: to find out if chimpanzees are capable of dealing with symbols. Much of human behavior is based on symbolism. Language, for instance, is made up of words that are symbols for objects, actions, etc. Human beings use word symbols even when thinking silently. Complete lack of symbolism would make true thinking practically impossible...