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Word: adopting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which will be "compatible" with the present-day black & white system. There have been many attempts to build such a tube, but none has succeeded so far. Many experts believe that color television should be postponed until such a tube, or something equally good, has been developed. To adopt either the CBS or the RCA system in the meantime, they argue, would be to freeze color television at a low level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Twinkle, Flash & Crawl | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...organizational meeting of the newly-formed Biological Society will be held at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Large Lecture Hall of the Biology Laboratory. The group will elect officers and adopt a constitution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biology Club Organized .. | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...refugees. In April 1946 the Hales first heard how the Germans had treated the tiny Loire village of Maillé; because they suspected the villagers of hiding an English pilot, the Nazis had killed 124 men, women & children, then razed half of the dwellings. The Hales decided to "adopt" the village, spent more than $25,000 providing their 500-odd wards with shoes, soap, tractors, china, blankets, furniture, altar carpets and scarves for the church and 40 yards of black funeral cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: The Fervent Angel | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...great value to the U. S. Since the danger to American security today is not communism but Russian expansion, Tito's break with the Cominform is an encouraging sign of abatement in the cold war. If his venture is successful, both Eastern and Western communists may adopt his doctrine of independence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aid to Tito | 10/18/1949 | See Source »

Senator George D. Aiken, leader in the fight for farm supports, received a serious setback this weekend when a Joint Conference Committee of Congress agreed tentatively to adopt a flat 90 percent of parity for the support of basic farm crops. But immediately after, the Committee withdrew its decision, leaving Senator Aiken confused, uncertain, and unhappy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parity Puzzle | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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