Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marlin sails for home at 5 next morning, an hour when sleepy customs officials find it easy to look the other way. Without benefit of export licenses, food has found its way into the wicker baskets of the returning women, and their demijohns hold cooking oil instead of wine. Back in Martinique, easygoing inspectors hurriedly chalk their O.K.s on the baskets. In a few minutes the traffickers have sold their smuggled goods...
Before the arms program can really get under way, Congress must pass a law permitting the sale of U.S. armaments to Canada. Although Washington has said nothing officially, the Canadian plan clearly enough dovetails into U.S. strategy. It would, in effect, boost the U.S. industrial potential in case of war, and it would help disperse the aircraft industry...
...Hard times aren't coming, but easy times are going." As the old year gave way to the new, that was the feeling of most Canadians from Cabot Strait to Juan de Fuca Strait...
Variable stars, says Stanley-Jones, may work the same way. When the star is in ai normal quiescent condition, its heavy fissionable atoms are too far apart for a chain reaction to get started. Being heavy, they sink gradually toward the center of the star. As they sink, they approach one another. When they get close enough, a chain reaction is set off. Its heat and radiation make the star expand until the fissionable materials in it are too far apart to react any more...
Matisse himself pretended not to be surprised at his new direction. "In my own way," he explained, "I have always sung the glory of God and His creations. I have not changed...