Word: carbonates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difference between the two great parties on great issues tends to diminish to the vanishing point. That is the secret strength of American society. . . . Our party system is one of Tweedledum and Tweedledee. ... To the exquisite pain of the doctrinaires, the party rising in power is ... a 'carbon copy' of the party it is displacing. . . . And the question is one of men, not of principles...
...book, Hemingway's noval, is not what it was cracked up to be, not for the screen at least. It is, however, so much better than the scenario about commandos which the boys on the outskirts of Los Angeles have been grinding out lately, with a carbon under it for the next commando picture, that it, becomes a shining example of fine celluloid drama...
...Georgia air base a harassed captain sat down and wrote this note: "To: Medical Supply Officer: "1) Following telephone information from your office that you were unable to issue carbon disulphide for use in this office in ant control, and following receipt of your letter listing insect repellents furnished by your office, request was made of Quartermaster for carbon disulphide for use by this office in ant control. We were informed by Quartermaster that they could only issue such preparation if the ant to be exterminated was in the building. If it was outside the building, the issuance of such...
...vice versa; a simple, harmless process for darkening metals, especially aluminum, so that they will not reflect light; a method of waterproofing vehicles so that engines will not stall when they ford streams; an inexpensive, durable metal for soldiers' dishes; a means of absorbing or eliminating poisonous carbon monoxide (apparently a substantial problem to soldiers .working around motorized equipment and plane hangars); new methods of sabotage for use by "friendly inhabitants within [enemy] occupied areas...
...flick of Toscanini's baton. After Wallenstein was appointed musical director of Station WOR, discriminating listeners began to notice a Toscanini polish and precision in WOR's Sinfonietta. Even today Alfred Wallenstein, with a passion for clarity and neatness and a curious paddling beat, conducts like a carbon copy of Arturo Toscanini...