Word: utters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in utter bafflement, the Navy called off its search. A board of inquiry began to sift far-fetched theories and farther-fetched rumors. A peacetime mystery was as unfathomable as any the war had produced...
...Italy. He has two sons, about 22 and 25, and a daughter about the same age. They are what we would call the university student type in America, with an added maturity which is common to Europeans of this particular class. We were discussing politics when, to my utter amazement, the older boy-asked just how one went about voting for candidates for public office and how a government was chosen under a democratic system...
...practice radar is not that simple. A conventional transmitter, sending continuous radar waves, would not do, for the same reason that a man roaring incessantly at a cliff would get back only a confusing noise. To get a clear, time-able echo, he must utter a short, sharp shout. That is exactly what radar does. It sends staccato "pulses" of electric energy, each less than a millionth of a second in length, at a rate of about 1,000 a second. Each pulse has time to make a round trip (about a thousandth of a second for a target...
...outcast had led him to picture paradise as a place in which everything was average and normal. Consequently, his dreams (and later, his novels) were built out of the most everyday events, moved precisely in the tempo of everyday Victorian life, and partook of that era's utter confidence in its own continuation...
With iron logic, the declaration also described the only alternative: invasion and "the utter devastation of the Japanese homeland." All in all, the terms added up to a hard peace but not to a ruthless one. In population, living standards, sovereignty and trade, the Japan they envisioned would not be inferior to the Japan of two generations...