Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...London decisions meant also the abandonment of a once-cherished concept of balance among its own Army, Navy and Air Force. The Armed Forces Day parade in Washington, marching past Harry Truman and other dignitaries (see cut), perhaps marked the last time the three services would be roughly equal in strength and cost. From now on, the U.S. Navy and Air Force would expand, and the Army would likely get less, as the U.S. fitted its needs and skills into the common pool of Western defense...
...first two cases in the series have just been released--Robert Boyle's Experiments in Pneumatics and The Overthrow of the Phlogiston Theory. Case three, Early Development of the Concept of Temperature and Heat, edited by Professor Duane Roller of Wabash College, will be published in a fortnight...
...Changing Concept. That same night, the Army also gave the nation a glimpse of some new weapons. Speaking in guarded phrases during a radio interview, Army Chief of Staff Joe Collins let it be known that his antiaircraft artillerymen had already developed a new AA rocket which could knock down bombers flying at 60,000 feet-well above the present bomber ceiling-and were working on another guided missile which promised to be even more accurate at even higher altitudes. General Collins also thought that he would soon have a new weapon of "radical design" which might "change the whole...
...late, great Adolph Simon Ochs, Sulzberger's father-in-law and father (1896-1935) of the modern New York Times. Sulzberger himself suggested the inscription: "Dedicated to the memory of Adolph S. Ochs . . . who by the example of a responsible press enlarged and fortified the Jeffersonian concept of a free press...
...must realize, Kerensky said, that World Revolution is a new, dynamic concept without roots in the past, a concept which overrides mere national boundaries...