Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...super air resistance). The compressibility of air determines the speed at which sound travels. That speed varies according to temperature; at cold, high altitudes sound slows down. At sea level, sound moves at about 760 m.p.h.; above 35,000 feet, at about 660 m.p.h. At these speeds, air molecules bunch so solidly and resistance becomes so great that sound waves reach their speed limit...
Well, we certainly were a bunch of sweet people on Dday, weren't we? We almost knocked ourselves out with all that . . . public praying...
Gunmaker Hawley, who also has described himself as the "world's greatest hydraulic engineer," jumped into the oil industry with his own characteristic platform: "Oilmen are a bunch of fuddy-duddies." He thought the U.S. needed a new system of exploration in order to avert a potential oil shortage. Said he: "We shouldn't be thinking in terms of individual oil fields. We should think of new oil provinces...
...every bit of it, and proceeded to swarm about her and sweep to Sanders Theatre. The boys smashed their way through the door and triumphantly carried Mrs. Nation onto the stage. The crusader again attempted to speak, but the hall vociferously drowned her out. Someone presented her with a bunch of chrysanthemums, which she accepted with profuse bows and acknowledgements...
Ivar Kreuger, who shot himself in his Paris apartment twelve years ago, was second to no man in his ability to parlay a bunch of match companies into an international stockmarket bubble. But Fairburn, a slower, solider worker, was the man who could almost always beat Kreuger at the match game-at least in the U.S. market, which is all that Mr. Fairburn ever cared much about. In sundry Kreuger forays into Diamond's bailiwick, Fairburn had a way of selling him U.S. match interests at a fancy price, but ending up with Diamond still in the saddle...