Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Johnson who was getting the bulk of the brickbats from the public. The Veterans of Foreign Wars had already issued a demand for a thorough Defense Department shake-up (TIME, Sept. 11). Last week, despite an eloquent presidential appeal, the Marine Corps League had gone right ahead to pass a thundering censure of Louis Johnson (see above) and a demand for his resignation. But it had voted down a similar thrust at Dean Acheson...
...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...
...Curtain possess greatly superior technical know-how and industrial capacity. They can, for instance, make 50 million tons of steel a year against the 28 million-ton capacity of Russia and its satellites. Yet if West Germany's 50 million people and 15 million-ton steel capacity should pass into Red control, preponderance would pass to the Reds. Even with the German industrial capacity still in Western hands, there were calamitous dangers in the present situation of free Europe. The free nations had scarcely made a beginning at integrating their industrial efforts. France's bravest postwar gesture...
Since then, under the presidency of Christian Herter himself, the school has sent some 300 college graduates on to advanced degrees and to careers as diplomats or businessmen all over the world. Each applicant (there are about 500 a year) must pass through a rigid set of tests and interviews. "We must see how he handles himself on his feet and on his fanny," says Dean Philip Thayer...
...help the boy pass his entrance exams, Radford's father sent him to a naval prep school in Annapolis. Arthur cut morning classes to cross the Severn and watch a group of the Navy's air pioneers fly their 1912-model crates. He did not realize that he was missing a 9 o'clock roll call until his father wrote a chiding letter about his truancy...