Word: armored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...produced when they collide with the metallic target. Low-voltage or "soft" X rays are sufficient to reveal cavities in teeth or the bones of the hand, because bone absorbs them and thus throws a "shadow" on the photograph. But to reveal gas bubbles or minute flaws in steel armor plate, very "hard" rays are needed, hence a very high voltage in the tube...
...domination of the Harvard line was evidenced by the fact that Worcester's line-plunging fullback and co-captain, Hugo Norige, who ran wild against the Crimson last year, was stopped cold Saturday by the welded armor plate of the forward wall. Especially brilliant was the play of right guard Ed Davis and of right end Walt Coulson, versatile Freshman from Lawrence, who also did most of the punting for the Crimson...
...Against the Allies massed along the Siegfried Line it threw itself into local counterblows. In one area against Lieut. General George S. Patton's Third Army it spent more than 200 tanks in such counterattacks. But, by this week, Patton's armor had found a weak spot at another point, had plunged ahead six miles...
...first U.S. armor rumbled into the first German town, Roetgen, Germans froze and stared. Then a German made a tentative V-sign. A woman started to cry. Finally a Hausfrau approached with an offering-a skirtful of green apples. Against orders, the G.I.s passed out chocolate...
Lieut. Commander Oscar Hagberg, recalled from submarine duty in the Pacific, found himself tutoring one of the mightiest loads of TNT ever assembled on the banks of the Severn. His forward armor, undeniable from end to end, sparkled with two All-Americans : Don Whitmire, tackle, and Jack Martin, center. Behind the seven pillars were Hal Hamberg, Navy's triple-threat ace of last year, and a backfieldful of ex-Alabama, North Carolina, Notre Dame and Penn State stars...