Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mood for the "L.S./M.F.T." (Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco) buildup will be more boom-de-ay than swoon-away. For $3,500 (and no piping deductions), Manhattan-based Metropolitan Opera Star Lawrence Tibbett last week began singing his own barrel-chested versions of such popular nifties as Don't Fence...
Refreshed by a couple of hours at the cinema, the barrel-chested, slightly bandylegged churchman rode home on a jam-packed London underground train. As he left the underground, he linked arms with his wife and strode rapidly toward the red-&-black Tudor buildings of Fulham Palace, his residence as Lord Bishop of London...
...Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk and Army Nurse Corps Superintendent Colonel Florence A. Blanchfield scrape the bottom of the barrel for nurses [TIME, Nov. 20], let them ponder the fact that there are several thousand registered men nurses in this country legally denied membership in the Army Nurse Corps...
...week's end the British had cleared about a third of Athens. But from Epirus in the northwest came a sudden yelp of alarm. General Napoleon Zervas, barrel-chested commander of the pro-Government EDES guerrillas, protested that ELAS forces had overrun eight villages in his territory. Next day he abandoned his headquarters at Ioannina...
...inventors, Norman F. Barnes and S. Lawrence Bellinger of General Electric Co., showed a picture of the air disturbances at the muzzle of a gun at the moment of firing (see cut). The knots near the muzzle are the hot, expanding gases expelled from the barrel. The long, dark, curved line ahead of them is the "shock wave" of compressed air created when an object travels faster than sound (the smaller curved line at the top of the picture is a shock wave caroming off a metal plate). This phenomenon, which airmen know as "compressibility," has thus far prevented airplanes...