Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...tough babies. . . . But I never fully realized quite how tough they were until the other afternoon when I was out on a British airdrome. There was a low, overcast sky. A plane broke through the clouds. The British anti-aircraft artillery went after it hammer and tongs. It was clear to me that it was a British Spitfire, but it was not clear to them. They shot at it with machine guns until it was on the ground, and continued shooting as it taxied up. The plane taxied up to the line and a 19-year...
...mechanical-refrigeration pioneer, singled out young Diesel, sent him, after graduation, to work at the Linde factory in Paris. In a few months Diesel was acting as engineer, manager, inventor, patent expert, purchasing agent. He began to take out patents of his own-one for a means of making "clear ice," another for a gadget to make ice on the dinner table, in a carafe...
...learns the limitations of intelligence. Turning to her father for help, she gets only his consistent but chilling advice that any assurance worth reaching she must reach by and in herself. Nor do the authors offer any facile solution. The girl finally kills herself, and it is made clear that it is bewildering pain, not a conviction of guilt, that drives her to it-that in the end she is still in doubt...
...musical is still the medium where Producer Zanuck is most at home. Although he dropped his sparkling early tongue-in-cheek technique (Thanks a Million) in favor of opulence, he still knows how to keep the good songs ringing clear...
William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, advocated sending American ship convoys to Ireland and suggested a basic revision of "our whole neutrality policy." He also stated that the United States could prevent Japan from entering the war by issuing a "flat and clear warning that we will fight if she attacks Singapore or the Dutch East Indies...