Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Third World War to Save Civilization had ended (with the help of the improved atom bomb) in the virtual extinction of the human race. The only visible survivors, a mother and daughter, were huddled near a rubble heap in the middle of Manhattan, which, blasted and fused by the bombs, elsewhere lay between its rivers as narrow, smooth and shiny as a coffin...
...Senator called in reporters, baldly announced that he had sent General Brad ley a "virtual ultimatum" to take over a 750-bed Army hospital in Okmulgee, a small Oklahoma oil town. The hospital is not fireproof, and it is within 37 miles of another Veterans' Hospital (prewar, pork-barrel style) in another small town, Muskogee. VA plans call for a new 1,000-bed building in Oklahoma City. But the Senator was looking for a fight. "If the VA does not take this hospital over," he said, "I will ask why when they come before the Senate for more...
...present time, under different circumstances. Where he is now, U.S. scientists cannot say and Government authorities will not say. If he is one of the German scientists imported to the U.S. as "human reparations," it will be the first time a Nobel prize has been awarded to a virtual prisoner of war. When Professor Hahn did his first atom-splitting, he was chemical head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Later, under the Nazis, the institute worked furiously to construct an atomic bomb, based on his discovery...
...Verdict. Allied air power, the board found, brought German economy to "virtual collapse." It made possible the success of the Normandy invasion. It left an imprint on the German nation which "will be lasting...
...second half of the intramural season opens, local deposters agree that the Eliot eleven has a virtual stranglehold on the championship; but this afternoon will mark the debut of Dudley's commuters, rumored to be a possible dark horse contender, against Kirkland. The new eleven may provide the sailors with more competition than they have had to date...