Word: forth
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...tragic thing when TIME prints such a vile set of non sequiturs as Poet Viereck has spewed forth...
...little (formerly five officers and less than 100 men) U.S. naval base had become headquarters for a U.N. task force. Ringed by soft green mountains, the turquoise harbor was a colorful array of British, Australian and American flags. Little whaleboats and captain's gigs raced madly back & forth hauling the brass on formal calls, which "are well in order," the British said, "since this is really not a war after all." At the officers' club Royal Marines turned out each night in red cummerbunds and dinner jackets. The Americans dressed on a war footing; many of them wore...
...drove jeeps along the sandy river flats to ferrying points on the Han River several miles upstream from the shattered bridge. There beetle-like rowboats jammed to the gunwales with refugees were plying back & forth across the broad, shallow stream...
...took a considerable time to recall them and put them to use. SEAC does its remembering with long tubes filled with mercury. Sound waves coded to represent numbers shoot through the tubes. When they reach the far end, electric repeaters bat them back again. The numbers echo back & forth in the mercury until they are needed in the machine's computations. Then they can be "brought to mind" in 168 millionths of a second...
Stupid Wolf. Among the arachnids which do not make webs are the "wolf spiders" or hunters, which live in little parapets like watchtowers, from which they leap forth and run down their prey by sheer speed. This group includes the stupid Lycosa, which, when deprived of her cocoon containing young, will accept a cork ball of the same shape and fondle it tenderly. There is also the jumping spider, which stalks her prey like a cat, and pounces when in range. The jumping spider has the best eyesight of all arachnids, with four of her eight eyes on the flattened...