Word: core
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their book, basketball was something played by girls in bloomers. But that winter New York's streets were filled with shivering men peddling apples, so Ned had his innings. When he sold $15,000 worth of tickets, you could have knocked the boys over with an apple core. In 1934 he put on his first big-time fixture: N.Y.U. v. Notre Dame, and the customers have been coming ever since...
Lowell has been the core of the House system in tradition and in geography since it was opened in 1930. The other Houses appear to cluster about its imposing white bell tower...
...were stunned by Pearl Harbor. . . . We were thrilled to the core by the unanimity, speed and wordlessness in Washington on Dec. 8-11. The 500 words of that man were all we wanted to hear. Five years of wind-letting on Capitol Hill could not have expressed the American will as clearly...
...commander, says Clausewitz, must guess whether, after receiving the initial blows, the core of the opponent's Army is gradually becoming condensed, tempered and strengthened, or, to the contrary, beginning to crumble into dust like a decanter made of Bologna glass whose stir-face has been cracked. The commander must figure out with precision how much the enemy state will be weakened by the loss of certain sources of supply and by the disconnection of certain arteries. He must foretell without mistake whether the enemy will collapse in pain from the wounds inflicted on him, or hurl himself forward...
...permanently magnetized when an electrical current flows through it. Hence, in the core of a distributor coil, it allows a high spark output at all engine speeds. This solves a problem which has troubled engineers as high-speed motors have demanded ever higher spark efficiency...