Chapter 2
A human being that worked as a mathematician figuring out equations.
What is a computer?
This term means once a year.
What is per annum?
Determined is a synonym for this word.
What is ambitious?
What is 18 hours?
Who is Mary Winston Jackson?
This agency's mission was to help the United States develop the most powerful and efficient airplanes in the world.
What is NACA?
This was a type of home style.
What is Victorian?
This is what Miriam Mann slipped into her purse at lunchtime.
What is the sign that said "colored computers"?
Dorothy's children came to live with her a _________ after she started to work at Langley.
What is a year?
Receptive is a synonym for this word.
What is impressionable?
This term referred to people at Langley were doing their part to win the war.
What is "victory through air power"?
Dorothy had to move 4 hours away from her children because of this.
What is working at Langley as a mathematician?
She was arrested in 1944 for refusing to move to the back of the bus.
Who is Irene Morgan?
Attendant is a synonym for this word.
What is bellman?
This is what Mary studied.
What is mathematics and science?
The science of matter, energy, and motion.
What is physics?
This means that you are unsure of yourself.
What is self-doubt?
"Mainly" is a synonym for this word.
What is predominantly?
Two million American women received this after the men returned from the war.
What is a pink slip?
This president wanted to show that the United States' version of democracy was the best system in the world.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
This committee was created to make sure that the federal government and defense industry followed the law of desegregaton.
What is the Fair Employment Practices Committee?
Dorothy rode the bus from Farmville to Newport News for this many miles.
What is 137 miles?
All of the buildings on the West Side were painted this color.
What is dark green?
This African American singer performed at Hampton Insitute.
Who is Marian Anderson?
Consequences is a synonym for this word.
What is repercussions?