Word: forms
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Ready. This was the Air Force's intercontinental bomber at the ready last week. The free world's Sunday punch was getting its daily windup. These were the men and this was the weapon, which in Winston Churchill's words, form the one "effective deterrent" hanging over the heads of the Soviet Politburo-the likeliest reason why Russia's aggressors have so far started only a proxy war in Korea...
Beveridge said he hoped this opposition would form early in the term, with an evening debate open to the public...
Unable to reach a majority decision on the problem of federal aid to higher, education, most of the delegates seemed to be for active aid if it could be in the form of student scholarships rather than outright grants to the colleges...
...motes it creates must take effect immediately or they will evaporate. Dr. Bernard Vonnegut, another of Langmuir's bright protégés, was assigned the job of finding some sort of permanent, nonvolatile particles that would hang in the air long enough for ice to form on them...
...Weather Bureau has shown recent signs of softening its opposition. Its chief, Dr. Francis W. Reichelderfer, gives Langmuir and Schaefer full credit for showing how a cloud can be precipitated. Reichelderfer agrees that certain special clouds, such as the cold clouds which form over mountains, can be seeded profitably. But he thinks Langmuir's claims are too sweeping. "My impression," he says, "is that Langmuir and his associates were successful in speeding up the rain formation process in a few cases, but I feel quite sure that in many cases the rain was due to natural causes...