Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...effective superiority over Russia in atomic weapons will never be greater than at present; as the months and years pass, it will almost certainly be less. This is true in spite of the fact that the U.S., in any given month, will probably continue to produce more atomic bombs than the U.S.S.R. As TIME said in August 1945, just after the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima: "That the U.S. could always produce more bombs than any other country was meaningless when 500 bombs would have as decisive an effect as 50,000." Most military men are now convinced that...
During the night Astronomer Meinel made two exposures. The first was enough: the plate showed bands representing the special wave lengths of light emitted by electrically excited hydrogen atoms. The big news was that the bands were not sharp, but smudged. This proved (by the "Doppler effect")*that some of the light was coming from fast-moving objects: i.e., hydrogen particles racing toward the earth from the sun. A rough calculation gave their speed as about 1,800 miles per second -about the right speed for a 15-hour journey from the sun to the earth's upper atmosphere...
Shrinking Success. By 1922, the Forward was selling 225,000 copies a day, its circulation peak. But Cahan's own measurement of success was the rapidity with which Jewish immigrants were absorbed into American life and turned to non-Yiddish papers. In effect, the paper's success could be measured by its drop in circulation. How well Cahan has succeeded may be gauged by the fact that the Forward, though still the biggest Yiddish daily, has dwindled to 83,226 daily and 94,390 Sunday. One of Cahan's favorite jokes is that for every $4 made...
...camera angles make a pair of cocoa cups enormously intriguing, endow the villain's silver-knobbed cane with a menacing, meaningful life of its own. He cuts back & forth between the lovers and shots of a frenetic Scottish reel to give a seduction scene a surprisingly erotic effect. His trial sequence, neatly dovetailing flashbacks of testimony into the lawyers' summations, is a fresh, economical way to film courtroom action. Many a moviegoer may find Director Lean's storytelling entertaining enough to divert attention from the weaknesses of the story...
...hill. Up on the other side they came and with a terrific shout gave the first line the bayonet. It fell back on the second line and it broke. As the blue mass retreated up the hill the fire of the Texans was poured into it with terrible effect." Hood had broken through...