Word: discs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knew Europe. Since Dooley started, As Time Goes By has sold over 300,000 copies. Recording companies, searching their files for the old Vallee and Renard records, have found their biggest bonanza since Boss Petrillo's ban on popular recording (TIME, June 22). While that ban exists, no disc can be made of Dooley's version. But both Dooley and Dodo are doing all right...
...more exact methods, that almost any soil may be used. On small jobs, little special equipment is needed. The ground is plowed, harrowed and cleared of larger stones. Bags of cement are spotted in a checkerboard pattern. Spread evenly, the cement is mixed dry with ordinary farm machinery, (disc and spring-tooth harrows are good), then sprinkled with water and mixed wet until an even color shows that the mix is right...
...authority of the Headquarters will extend only to those matters mentioned in the original War Department order--disc pline, coordination, use of facilities, and relations with the University and press. The senior officer of each of the schools listed above, now designated as "Officer in Charge," will continue to prescribe the training given at his own school, and will supervise the technical and professional training of his unit...
Land mines are generally divided into two classes: anti-tank and antipersonnel. The German IP2 is a typical anti-tank mine, disc-shaped, 10½ in. in diameter, 2¼ in. thick, weight 9 Ib. (5 Ib. TNT, 4 Ib. steel casing, detonator, etc.). Anti-tank mines are buried in the ground at strategic points through which approaching enemy tanks must pass. The number used may run into astronomical figures: a field 400 by 750 yards containing mines placed 1½ yards apart requires 5,000 mines. As many as 25,000 Russian mines have been...
Then there is the excitement every collector knows at finding a long-sought item, in this case a worn wax disc with a little music still audible if you listen for it. There is the assurance, never to be contradicted, that you yourself, endowed with the necessary technique, could improvise a jazz solo worthy of a Louis Armstrong. There is also the glow of superiority at being a member of a somewhat select, if ever-growing, minority to which names like Pee-Wee Russell and records like "Knockin' a Jug" mean something. And finally, there is the appreciation which...