Word: watt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around Land's End, in sleepy little Camborne by Tintagel, where men say King Arthur was born, a dour Cornishman sat at the foot of a weathered statue. It is a likeness of Richard Trevithick, who harnessed steam so well that he, not Thomas Watt, really launched the industrial revolution. In a turn of phrase the men of Cornwall have used for centuries, the Cornishman broke a bit of news to a neighbor: "Tomorrow, I'm going out to England...
...month-old story, finally released by the censor last week, suggested how much the Allies tried to do at Anzio with how little. The story, by the Montreal Star's Sholto Watt, described the exploits of a unique unit of mixed Canadian and U.S. troops, known unfavorably to the Germans as the men "with funny pants and dirty faces...
...weeks," wrote Watt, "they held a phenomenally long stretch of Anzio beachhead . . . several times more than would normally be allotted to a corresponding number of infantry...
...carried on somewhat like the airplane designers who picked up where the Wright brothers left off. Credit for discovery of the 20-year-old radar principle is in dispute between two U.S. Navy researchers, A. Hoyt Taylor and Leo C. Young, and a Scottish physicist, Sir Robert A. Watson-Watt. The British were the first to use radar (which they call the radio locator) in the Battle of Britain. But OSRD has converted the first crude radar into something of almost human intelligence and with superhuman powers...
...Foreign Policy Association; Major George Fielding Eliot, John W. Vandercook and Sydney Moseley, commentators; Harry Scherman, president of the Book-of-the-Month Club; former Supreme Court Justice Jeremiah T. Mahoney; the Rev. Robert W. Searle, general secretary of the Greater New York Federation of Churches; Robert J. Watt, international representative of the American Federation of Labor...