Word: circulares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blade. Dr. E. F. Fullam of General Electric Co. told about a slicing machine that apparently does its work without even touching the material that it slices. The machine has a small circular blade that is spun by an electric motor at 65,000 r.p.m. Its rim, moving faster than sound, forms a cutting edge of compressed air much sharper than a razor. Hard metals can be sliced into films two-millionths of an inch thick. Since the blade does not get dull, Dr. Fullam believes that it never touches the work...
According to the circular, Mantegazza has obtained a "first-hand, personal knowledge of the sexual habits of mankind," and has found time to write a book, which has ben reduced in price from six dollars...
...rink there are fixed bull's-eye targets (see diagram). Each player on a four-man team, captained by an authoritarian "skip," gets two shots at the target on each round. With a bowler's arm-swinging motion, the curler hoists a 40-lb. circular (maximum circumference: 36 in.) stone,* and sends it slithering down the ice toward the "tee line" bull's-eye. If the stone falls short of the "hog line," it is automatically removed from the rink; if it slides beyond the scoring line, it is also out. Object of the game: to nudge...
...Russians, the circular bypass would 1) make it easier to blockade Berlin again, and to escape being humiliated as they were in the 1948 blockade, when the West forced them to reroute trains far out into the poky single-track hinterlands; 2) make it possible to build up its armored line on the Elbe without advertising the fact by sending trainloads of troops and tanks through Berlin...
...then gave another incomprehensible shout, ran round the table, sat down on the floor and began to play with a clockwork engine on a circular track. The little girl climbed on a tricycle and pedaled round the floor. "I can ride your bike," she said...