Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard amendment, defeated 322-49, was as follows: "While the American Student Union has no sympathy for the Russian attack on Finland and specifically condemns it as a clear act of aggression, nevertheless it does not want to see out neutrality prejudiced by those acts we consider to be unneutral...
...resolution the A. S. U. came out for measures to protect American neutrality and to extend progressive legislation and protect civil liberties. On the civil liberties portion. Gottlieb said, there was almost no disagreement, but an attack on the Roosevelt administration for abandoning its broad social aims was proposed bitterly fought, and finally defeated...
Died. Rear Admiral Reginald Fairfax Nicholson, 87, last surviving Civil War naval officer; of a heart attack; in the Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C. He served as chief navigation officer (1898) of the battleship Oregon on its spectacular trip around Cape Horn to join the U. S. fleet off Cuba. He was one of the two naval men in history to rise from the ranks to wear an admiral's four stars. (The other: John Paul Jones...
...Uranium Attack. The Department of Terrestrial Magnetism has a powerfully equipped atom-smashing laboratory, headed by Dr. Merle Anthony Tuve. Early this year, when two Germans announced disintegration of the heavy uranium atom with release of 200,000,000 electron-volts of energy (most powerful man-made atomic explosion), Dr. Tuve and co-workers promptly confirmed the discovery, added the find that the uranium fragments become radioactive, continuing to emit particles for a few seconds after the impacts have stopped...
Stressing long shots rather than a short passing attack (on the theory that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points), Teacher Bee has developed team after team of dead-eyed marksmen. Three years ago, a team of Beemen ran up a string of 43 victories before finally losing to a steaming-hot Stanford bunch led by famed Shooter Hank Luisetti...