Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a dim crescent moon overhead, shrouded by wisps of clouds. As the soldiers paused in the column, I said to them: "How you doin'?" A big fellow sighed and answered: "This is tough. Can't sleep in nighttime for moving. Can't sleep in daytime for shelling." Around midnight, Horner took his unit out of the culvert and moved farther uphill, preparing to follow Morehouse if he was successful. We had not been long in our new spot, and had just set up our own telephone and radios, when a voice called us and said...
...City of the Bombed. Looking through glasses, we saw that sheets and drawers and white pieces of cloth were hanging straight down from windows in the face of the cliff. We ventured upward in column, passing along the way a ghostly old woman lying amid crumbling plaster and shattered timber, who stretched out her hands to us, stared out of sightless eyes, and moaned like the wind whining through pine trees...
...Needle. Walker's discovery is an ingenious projection of a phenomenon familiar to every schoolboy: a dry needle laid on water will float because of the water's surface tension. Surface tension is what makes water stick to the sides of a glass, and if a column of glass is fine enough, water will actually climb up its sides. Suppose, reasoned Walker, this "wetting" principle were applied to a porous membrane: would water filling the pores have enough surface (or "interfacial") tension to block other liquids while letting water through...
Fred Beck's column of homespun advertising in the Los Angeles Times has as many readers as Westbrook Pegler's column. This intense reader following has made a $5 million enterprise of the Los Angeles Farmers Market, which less than ten years ago was a vacant lot and an idea...
...idea for the Farmers Market came one day in 1934 to Roger Dahlhjelm (rhymes with column) a dogged, rawboned Swede who was once Stanley Steamer's best auto salesman west of New York...