Word: buoyant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thick walls to resist the enormous underwater pressure. It will not be suspended from a cable, like William Beebe's bathysphere (which set a 3,000-ft. depth record in 1934). The Piccard sphere will float like a balloon in the ocean depths, supported by tanks filled with buoyant gasoline. A heavy iron keel attached by electromagnets will cause the sphere to sink. To rise, Piccard will cut the electric current and release the keel. The bathyscaphe can cruise slowly by means of two propellers driven by a small electric motor. A searchlight will seek out whatever sea monsters...
...knows what her fans expect of her. It has been said that the Grable legend is so secure that she could play an entire picture in an iron lung (Technicolored, of course) and send her admirers away happy. This might be true, provided she could remain her buoyant blonde self, complete with legs. When she tried to hide behind long skirts and a prim Victorian manner in The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, the faithful were outraged. Many of them got the word and stayed away altogether; more than 100,000 others complained of the sacrilege by mail. Miss Pilgrim, an attempt...
Manhattan's buoyant Symon Gould, vice presidential candidate of the Vegetarian Party (TIME, March 22), last week dispatched an open letter to Britain's eminent austeritarian and anti-meat man, Sir Stafford Cripps. Wrote Gould...
...Blonde, buoyant Eva Paul had spontaneous, unaffected gaiety. She also had pretty legs. When the Lithuanian Daily News sponsored a Miss Lithuania contest in 1933, 17-year-old Eva Paul won it, ruled as Queen of Lithuanian Day at the Chicago World's Fair. When her mother and stepfather moved to a farm near Lowell, Ind., Eva slipped easily into the affairs of the town high school. By the time she was graduated in 1935, she was president of the Red Pepper Social Club and had acquired the highest of adolescent accolades-she was a "popular girl...
After the tests, Hughes denied that he planned the flight to impress the Senate committee and, in doing so, suggested that the Hercules was a marvelous machine. "It felt so buoyant and good," said he, "I just pulled it up." But the performance would certainly do him no harm when he appears before the committee this week. The next and more extensive trial flights will not be made until January...