Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fissionable material for the gun barrel (plutonium or uranium), which is extremely heavy, weighing about half again as much as lead (50 Ibs. would be about the size of a softball). Beware of any article extremely heavy for its size, since fissionable material may be disguised by a coating of plastic...
...following note was found in the trash barrel near the LAMPOON building, and is reproduced here in its entirety...
Shostakovich: Concerto in C Minor (Victor Aller, piano; Mannie Klein, trumpet; Concert Arts String Orchestra conducted by Felix Slatkin; Capitol). A barrel of fun, vintage 1933. It turns pretentious phrases into taradiddles, uncovers one ear-tickling twist after another, and includes a slow movement that is unfailingly melodious. Standout performance...
Among the many books that took the long view on man's past and his future, two raised enough big questions to keep the cracker-barrel set busy all winter. In a casually lofty historical essay, The World and the West, Historian Arnold Toynbee suggested that faithless Western man stands a fair chance of getting his comeuppance from Russia and the East, but who knows?-maybe not. There was no such hemming and hawing from Physicist Charles Galton Darwin. The grandson of the author of The Origin of Species played the old Malthusian game in The Next Million Years...
...engine. Instead of last year's 125 h.p. V8, the new Mercury has a completely redesigned V8, turning up 161 h.p., that engineers have been working on for five years and have tested for thousands of hours. It includes such features as overhead valves, a four-barrel carburetor, and a compression ratio boosted from 7.2-1 to 7.5-1. The car's performance: 16 to 20 miles to the gal lon and a top speed of more than 100 m.p.h...