Word: speciality
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...students did not stop with recommendations: in some towns they undertook to persuade citizens to vote for school bond issues. They arranged radio interviews, hired airplanes, snapped aerial pictures of likely school sites. In Campbell, they persuaded local merchants to plump for a school bond issue in special...
Last week, after a special trial of the eight, set up by the Board of Education and presided over by Manhattan Lawyer Theodore Kiendl, the city got a verdict. Ruled Kiendl: since the Communist Party has "at all pertinent times [been] dedicated to the advocacy of the violent overthrow of the Government of the United States . . . membership in the party constitutes cause for dismissal of a teacher . . ." Therefore, said Kiendl, it was "perfectly proper" for the superintendent to ask the question he did, and it was the duty of each teacher to answer...
Landon helped form the "Haydn Society of the United States" when he was just out of college in 1946. The society managed to get some special programs of Haydn's music performed on a Boston radio station, but not much more. In 1949, Landon formed the "Haydn Society Inc.," and really started to roll...
Large nuclear reactors need vast quantities of cooling water, and it must be water of a very special sort. The plutonium plant at Hanford, Wash. was built there because of the Columbia River, but Columbia water did not prove entirely satisfactory. Though clear and cold and plentiful, it contains a large amount of dissolved solids, some of which become radioactive when they are carried through the reactors...
...asked Radio Corp. of America to design a special apparatus to copy pages from books or bound periodicals and send them quickly over a wire. Last week the new high-speed "facsimile transmitter" started working. A chemist at Y-12 site called the library at X-10 site and asked for a two-page article in a chemical journal. In 4½ minutes a copy came out of a receiving apparatus at Y12. No matter how hot the copy might get, it need never contaminate...