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Word: weaponeers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fear is a powerful weapon," he said. "Although the best possible answer to the Communist tag tied on the movie industry would be the making of better pictures, Hollywood will probably crawl back into its shell for about two years and produce even less imaginative pictures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lavery Holds Hollywood No Red Bailiwick | 12/5/1947 | See Source »

Early detection by means of X-rays, she emphasized, is the best weapon against tuberculosis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drive Head Lauds College Buying of Christmas Stamps | 12/2/1947 | See Source »

...World's shrewd Publisher Joseph Pulitzer set Artist Richard Outcault to drawing more of the same, with the Kid's speeches lettered on his yellow nightgown. Over at the New York Journal, William Randolph Hearst fumed at the new weapon introduced into his bitter circulation war with Pulitzer. In October Hearst announced his own new color section: "eight pages of iridescent polychromous effulgence that makes the rainbow look like a piece of lead pipe." Its star attraction: The Yellow Kid; Hearst had lured Outcault away. To replace him, Pulitzer hired George Luks, then a little-known painter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stuff of Dreams | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...post-mortem, the .22 calibre bullet entered the left side of the brunette's head, and failed to penetrate the orbital region of the brain. Hence they concluded that the Vassar honors graduate would have been able to stagger 50 feet from the place where she actually discharged the weapon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Suicide Earns Experts' Vote In Flint Death | 11/29/1947 | See Source »

...churchgoer. Appleton's probings in the upper atmosphere, where he located two layers of ionized gases, resulted in the first use of reflected radio waves to measure the distance of an unseen object. Just in time for World War II, the technique developed into Britain's secret weapon: radar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: En-Nobeled Britons | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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