Word: breech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pressure drives a jet of gas particles to the rear, and the recoil sends the rockets ahead. Rockets were used as war missiles in the early 19th Century. They had ranges up to two miles, better than the artillery of that day, were discarded only with the advent of breech-loading guns with longer ranges and rifled barrels...
...Conn, plant roared a Vultee A19 motored by an engine of the old radial, air-cooled type that was half again as powerful as the Allison. Weighing slightly less per horsepower than the Allison, it could fit into small pursuit planes as snugly as a cartridge in a rifle breech...
...pleased the Prix de Rome jury did not entirely please Mrs. Hailman. Sculptor Keren's classic nudes, she thought, could not gracefully wear those Indian names. So last week before he departed for Rome young Sculptor Koren gave his figures something else to wear. In plaster he added breech clouts to each, crowned each with a feather headdress. Said...
...most squirm-making act of all, a Hopi Indian snake dance. While portly Col. Tim McCoy explains that the idea is to placate the snakes because in them rest spirits who can return to the rain gods and intercede for a good corn crop, eight painted, breech-clouted Hopis trail around in a circle holding one or two snakes apiece, while a man in the centre waves a bunch of feathers to divert the serpents' attention. As a public precaution, the snakes' fangs have been removed or are kept folded back by little buckskin muzzles. Even...
...waters of the Pacific rolled blue and calm one day last week as a gunner aboard the U. S. S. Wyoming, engaged in war games off San Clemente Island, took his ramrod to seat a shell in the breech of a 5-in. gun which was participating in a barrage to cover a landing party of Marines. The gunner's thrust was his last. As he shoved home the shell, up with a roar went the breech in a great red flare of flame and blood against the blue. "I saw one boy sort of drift past me," recounted...