Word: readjustment
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...appears that, as has long been suspected in well-informed circles, all the long men have short beds and all the short men have long beds. The Bedroom New Deal plans to readjust this inequality in favor of the Forgotten Six-footer...
...Stalin and Molotov doubtless counted on a longer war, possibly on the socialization of Europe in the process. When France collapsed, it was time to readjust the balance of power, if possible; at least to readjust Russia's defenses. So Russia marched...
...whole was less concerned with the immediate future of civil liberties than with the immediate future of the U. S. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "The whole shape of the world . . . has been destroyed before our eyes, and it has proved all but impossible to readjust our whole system of ideas and attitudes to the new reality which now confronts us . . . . There is an American case, worth arguing for, worth fighting for and worth dying for." Just dawning on the Western Hemisphere was the suspicion that Nazi Germany, like Communist Russia, was engaged in a world revolution...
...band (44,000-50,000 kilocycles), FCC opened the heavens to FM broadcasting. Including the band it .had previously been allocated experimentally, it now has 42,000-50,000 kilocycles, will presently be able to spot stations all over the land. Meanwhile, television must plainly label television experimental, must readjust its transmitters in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles to one of its other bands. Bubbling with confusion, excitement, hysteria, the radio industry, feeling the hot breath of revolution on its neck, last week gazed fitfully into the future. Some of its visions were sad, some glad. Among them...