Word: dependable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Russia has the atomic bomb, can't they knock the devil out of Europe? I don't know. We have to help Europe-the question is how much? Is that our main purpose? Should we make plans for defeating Russia on the European continent, or should we depend on air power? I've been primarily an air man, but I don't think we should put all our eggs in one basket. I don't know. It ought to be re-examined...
Continuous Creation. According to Einstein's relativity, four-dimensional space (three dimensions plus time) is in a sense "curved," and its curvature and therefore its "size" depend on the amount of matter within it. If more matter were added, space would have to stretch, carrying the galaxies with it. Why not, asked Bondi and Gold, figure out how much matter would have to be added to make the galaxies recede at the observed rate? The answer, dragged from thickets of mathematics, came out very simple. One atom of hydrogen, they calculated, must be added to each quart of space...
Brown will certainly have to depend on its own passing game as well as the strong running plays which can develop from the "X-T." On one of those, the "X" back (right-half) cuts diagonally across into the left side of the line. The quarterback fakos a handoff, and then gives to the fullback, who has charged straight over right guard...
...After all," Carmichael states, "if we are merely interested in getting men into the forces, we may become begged down in infantry, thinking." And when it comes to infantry, Russia will always be ahead of us. We must depend on our skill...
...into its own economy. This is the annoying detail which is perhaps best left out of an idealistic report. But it is the annoying detail the U. S. must face. If the U. S. is to carry out the proposals of the Gray report--and our national security may depend on those proposals--it had better be prepared to give plenty, and to give it cheerfully, for as long as our perspective allies need aid to remain solvent and to remain allies...