Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well aware that opinions have been expressed with great frequency and violence that the defense of Europe by ground forces is impossible . . . As to the latter (military considerations) I should like to remind you . . . that Dr. Vannevar Bush, who has considerable knowledge of modern weapons, believes that the technological advances of recent years enormously favor the defense of land positions against mechanized and armored troops...
Chemist Duisberg had begun his own experiments with the creosote bush (Larrea divaricata), an acrid, sticky evergreen that thrives in millions of acres of drought-stricken wasteland. Last winter, using a distilling apparatus made from junkheap parts, Duisberg showed how to turn the hardy bush into a palatable stock feed.* With one byproduct already available to increase the margin of profit (nordihydroguaiaretic acid, a fat preservative that brings $35 a lb.), he managed to develop another: a quick-drying varnish that is almost certain to be salable. Other promising plants on Duisberg's list...
...rostrum at one end, and twenty rows of chairs. Sitting around when I came in were a couple of old men, two old women, and a six-year-old girl who mugged everyone present. From out of the corner an impeccably dressed individual with horn-rimmed glasses and a bush of curly hair appeared to greet...
...Louis Nevin, U.P.'s Ralph Forte and Haynes Thompson, I.N.S.'s H. Edward Knob-laugh, TIME'S Piero Saporiti, Chicago Tribune's Jocelyn Bush...
...coming year Levin will give the popular Shakespeare course, 123, again, but his English drama from the origin to the closing of the theatres will be omitted. Levin's lectures are like oral essays; they are carefully constructed and seem rehearsed in delivery. Bush gives an authoritative but somewhat stodgy course in Milton...