Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parachutists, tons of bombs, and bearing within them bombing and scouting airplanes available instantly for offensive or defensive duty. The Germans have at least two large rigid airships-the Graf Zeppelin and the LZ-130, and some experts believe they constitute Hitler's boasted "secret weapon'' for the invasion of England...
...fighting-ship design is the airplane. Before the epochal crippling of the Bismarck by aerial torpedo, and the crashing success of unsupported aircraft in sinking the Prince of Wales and Repulse, designers of battlewagons and smaller craft had given only half an eye to defense against the new weapon on the seas. Those demonstrations ended all arguments, basically altered ship design...
...Columnist "Cassandra"-burly, 32-year-old, Irish-born William Neil Connor -announced he was quitting to join the Army. Britain's most detested, adored, vastly read gadfly thus said farewell: "I am still a comparatively young man and I propose to see whether the rifle is a better weapon than the printed word. Mr. Morrison can have my pen-but not my conscience. Mr. Morrison can have my silence-but not my self-respect...
Aside from the daily newspaper and the radio there is no more potent propaganda weapon in the United States than the motion picture. Hollywood has not been unconscious of its power; through the late 1930's the films ceased to debunk war and gradually, through such efforts as "Arise My Love," made Americans conscious of its implications. In fact, these films provoked certain Senators so far into consciousness that they started an investigation of war-mongering among Hollywood producers last fall. But the movie industry today seems to be resting on its laurels, whatever they...
Suffering a slump after beating M. I. T., the Yardling fencing team lost to Yale 18-9. The Blue took every weapon 6-3, an the Crimson failed to put on an expected into-season apart...