Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week U.S. children had toys, candy and all the trimmings that traditionally go with Christmas. But it was a safe bet that no toy on Christmas Day aroused more ecstasy than a pair of new shoes given to a little boy in the U.S. zone of far-off Vienna. The little boy was an orphan. Like most of the children he knew, he had cause to realize that mere warmth, mere survival, are incomparably precious...
Ancon, Canal Zone...
...minutes handsome, 23-year-old test pilot Chalmers ("Slick") Goodlin felt the plane out, reporting steadily by radio to observers on the ground. Once, he shot up to 550 miles an hour, prudently throttled back to avoid crashing into the danger zone of compressibility near the speed of sound (763 m.p.h. at sea level). Then, with his fuel gone (at top speed the XS-1 would gulp up its four tons of ethyl alcohol and liquid oxygen in 2½ minutes), he glided down...
When the Allies sliced Berlin four ways, the Russians got the University of Berlin. Last week U.S. authorities had approved a school for their zone which will start in where the University of Berlin leaves off. Their model is Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, which an exiled German scholar named Albert Einstein first...
...first term, next September, about 400 graduate students will be admitted, mostly from the U.S. zone. The School of Advanced Studies will teach one subject hitherto largely neglected by the Germans: how to teach. Its sponsors hope that graduates of the two-year program will staff Germany's scholar-shy universities and laboratories...