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Word: droning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...sold well to feeder lines. Fairchild hopes to branch out into new products, feels that "every business has something in it that has growth, even if the business as a whole does not." One new development that could help his company: the USD-5, an unmanned electric-eye drone capable of flying over enemy territory to take pictures and send back data electronically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: The Yankee Tinkerers | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

...been thrust too far into the foreground of our educational practices. The Innocent will bless the men who are willing and able to teach in a lower level natural sciences course, or do a good job with an important introductory "survey," but confound the men who drone through the petrified information on their dog-eared three-by-five cards year after year, or recite from their glittering galley-proofs until the Dean has to ask them to desist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Innocents at School | 2/3/1960 | See Source »

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