Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within three years, the Atomic Energy Commission expects to be running one of the Navy's fast new submarines on an atomic power plant. Before summer, a task force will test late-model atomic bombs at the atoll of Eniwetok, the AEC's proving ground. Scientists have been quoting 1955 as the target time for cheap atomic-generated electric power. Three years of AEC work are nearing the payoff...
Buried below ground level in the basement of Widener Library is the photostating service. This non-profit organization photostats University records, exams for small courses, and material for scholars at other universities...
Aptheker based his charges primarily on the basis of the content of Schlesinger's latest book, "The Vital Center," which suggest a common ground for political action by moderate conservatives and moderate liberals. Aptheker, called Schlesinger's position a program groomed to the needs of a rolling class seeking war and fascism...
...houseboys, chauffeurs and voodoo drummers in their spare time, the paintings were as uninhibited as they were crude. Their bright automobile-enamel colors and outlandish but occasionally forceful draftsmanship looked good to many a critic, for they made a pleasant and refreshing contrast with the alfalfa-dry fare ground out by most professional moderns. "These fellows," said one enthusiastic gallerygoer, "paint as a cock crows...
Vinson said over the weekend that the Administration would doubtless ask for an extension on the ground that the law served as a spur to voluntary enlistment. "But they haven't got a chance in the world of getting it," he said. "There is no justification...