Word: chuted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest timesavers for customers in Foley's new store is a chute system to deliver packages to a central claim desk. Buyers do not have to wait or load themselves down, but pick up all their packages at one time...
...there isn't enough air to breathe. A special bottle of oxygen may fix that. But the "opening shock" at high altitudes is too great to risk. It is better to fall into denser air before using the parachute. Wright Field has developed a gadget that opens the chute at the proper altitude, whether the pilot is conscious...
...Edge Hill vote meant anything, it meant that the socialists could still count on the workers to give the Labor Party a loyal working-class vote regardless of conditions. Moreover, Prime Minister Attlee, rightly or wrongly, believed that the Labor Government had hit the bottom of the chute, and that its standing with the voters, since it could scarcely go lower, must go up. Noting that Labor has not lost any seat in by-elections since 1945, London's Daily Herald burbled: "It is more than 70 years since a Government has enjoyed such an uninterrupted sequence...
...rates on an eight month contract are charged by the Cambridge Garage at less accessible 128 Mt. Auburn Street, but they are completely filled, along with the Gulf Oil Station opposite the Freshman Union, the Crimson Garage opposite Kirkland House on Boylston Street, and S. H. McCartney's underground chute on Brattle Square...
...moment that thousands of U.S. moppets would long remember. Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy,* had just leaped, with suitable sound effects, from a plane. The hero wore a suit of armor and two parachutes. But one chute failed to open. Then it developed that something was wrong with the other chute, too. Jack plunged earthward...