Word: disks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generally works this way: when one of our correspondents has written the story we asked him to get, he turns it over to a professional talker who chants it as fast as he can into a radio transmitter. At this end we record his words on film, disk or wire recorders from which the story is transcribed for the editorial department...
...keep ahead of your queries -like these: "Can you tell me what former President's wife was referred to as 'Lemonade Lucy'?" (Ans.: Mrs. James K. Polk) . . . "Where can I get the only two recordings made by Olga Alvino?" (Ans.: They're on one disk, Victor 22313, which is no longer in circulation-so you have to prowl among the second-hand music shops.) . . . "What size is a French 42½ woman's shoe?'' (Ans.: 10½-you always subtract 3 2 from the French measure to get the American size.) . . . "What...
...like a watch spring) and 4) loosely spiral (like a pinwheel). The Milky Way is a pinwheel. Sir James reasoned that a spherical galaxy spinning in space, like a whirling ball of soft butter, must spread out at the edges and flatten in the center and become more & more disk-shaped, thus evolving from a ball to a spiral. Therefore, said he, a sphere must be the first stage in galactic evolution and a spiral the last...
...device, known as the "ring sight," looks something like a reading glass. When a gunner peers through it, he sees a set of rainbow-colored, concentric circles. Unlike rings painted on glass, these optical rings are projected beyond the disk and seem to lie directly on the object sighted (see cut). Easier to use and more accurate than most optical sights, the ring sight is especially helpful against moving targets, because the regularly spaced outer rings give a gunner a means of measuring how much he must lead the target...
After four months in the Burma jungle, plagued with Delhi sores, and drinking water from mud holes polluted with long-time dead Japs, holding a small disk of glass in one's eye with complete aplomb calls for steel nerves...