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Defense work during the Second World War adapted those insights to military ends: devising uncrackable cryptography, resisting signal jamming, reducing interference in anti-aircraft radar systems.
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Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
With a post-stock market crash-depression and a dustbowl ensuing ,and a Second World War looming, the democratic ideals of Ancient Greece fueled the escapist arts of the era.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024
In the near term, the CBO expects debt as a percentage of GDP to exceed the record peak of the Second World War by 2029.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2024
One boy in Vincent’s year who called himself Bruce, after Bruce Lee, rode a motorcycle several hundred miles into the Hengduan Mountains, at the edge of the Tibetan Plateau, to research a road that had been constructed as part of China’s supply chain during the Second World War.
—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Any student of history knows the basic outline of the Second World War.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024
Other artists, like Joseph Beuys, who scribbled out a quasi-Marxist manifesto, and Dalí, had been born early enough in the 20th century to know the full enormity of Nazism, fascism and the Second World War.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
The Biltmore Conference, moreover, was held during the spring of 1942, after the tide of the Second World War had turned.
—Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
His government has set out to rewrite school history textbooks to portray Russia as perpetually defending itself against outside enemies and to link the war in Ukraine to the Soviet Union’s victory in the Second World War.
—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2024
Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
With a post-stock market crash-depression and a dustbowl ensuing ,and a Second World War looming, the democratic ideals of Ancient Greece fueled the escapist arts of the era.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024
In the near term, the CBO expects debt as a percentage of GDP to exceed the record peak of the Second World War by 2029.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2024
One boy in Vincent’s year who called himself Bruce, after Bruce Lee, rode a motorcycle several hundred miles into the Hengduan Mountains, at the edge of the Tibetan Plateau, to research a road that had been constructed as part of China’s supply chain during the Second World War.
—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Any student of history knows the basic outline of the Second World War.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024
Other artists, like Joseph Beuys, who scribbled out a quasi-Marxist manifesto, and Dalí, had been born early enough in the 20th century to know the full enormity of Nazism, fascism and the Second World War.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
The Biltmore Conference, moreover, was held during the spring of 1942, after the tide of the Second World War had turned.
—Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
His government has set out to rewrite school history textbooks to portray Russia as perpetually defending itself against outside enemies and to link the war in Ukraine to the Soviet Union’s victory in the Second World War.
—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2024
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