Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Once again," said the trade magazine Aviation Week in an angry editorial the Soviets have beaten us needlessly to a significant technical punch." What provoked Aviation Week to such fury was its own story, not to be confirmed elsewhere, that in the last two months a 'wide variety of foreign observers" had seen the military prototype of a nuclear-powered plane flying over Moscow. For its part, the Pentagon was 1) skeptical that the Russians were already flying a nuclear plane, 2) well braced to ride out the propaganda storm if the Russians do fly the first A-plane...
...crash on take-off or landing with the reactor operating would scatter radioactive material over a wide area...
...Ways & Means subcommittee on foreign-trade policy, Kearns called for "a single agency within the Federal Government responsible for coordinating all efforts to promote private investment abroad," then blandly quoted two businessmen who had suggested this job for Commerce. Scattered through Kearns's lengthy prepared statement were yard-wide hints that Congress would do well to beef up Commerce's role in foreign economic policy. Sample: "Those responsible for developing an interest in foreign investment abroad, such as the Department of Commerce, should have a voice in the foreign lending policies of the public agencies...
...injury, but worked in a chemical factory in the Urals. While the '20s brought him success, the late '30s imposed silence. During the Stalinist purges, Pasternak turned to translating Shakespeare, Goethe, Shelley-the only work of his by which he is known to a wide Russian public. Save for two wartime books of poetry, no volume of Pasternak's has been published in Russia for a quarter-century, although handwritten copies are privately circulated...
...discovered several topics for use at future conferences," Leland said. Two of the most interesting questions posed during the conference centered around the wide disparity between the educational philosophies of men's and women's colleges and the role of science in different general education programs...