Word: disks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Northwest Passage. Nudged by westerly trade winds, the whirling disk begins to move northwest, picking up speed as it goes. Eventually the howling hurricane builds up to a diameter of 300-600 miles, whirls at 75 to 140 m.p.h. The most violent gusts are at its leading edge. Sucking up water from the sea, which may rise 20 feet, the disk roars on at 10 to 50 m.p.h. along the path of least resistance, i.e., in the direction of lowest pressure. In the path over which a northbound vortex passes, the storm first blows from the east, offers a brief...
...summer term was a shopping success. The Lower Common Room was packed by one of the largest turnouts in recent years, and the Dance Committee, headed by C. Austin Fish '46 and Dick Gorlin '46, is already planning bigger and better things in the way of another disk dance in about four weeks...
...Rosemont (NJ.) "Paul Whiteman Walking Horse Farm." There, noted Beebe, Whiteman keeps 150 pipes, 100 suits, 75 pairs of "costly, hand-tooled" town shoes, 24 pairs of riding boots, 15 saddles (one silver-mounted), one dozen staticless radios, enough phonograph records to make the planning of a disk-house no idle talk...
...Army lingo for identification disk...
...shells for use against tanks, pillboxes and troop concentrations. Unlike other mortars, which are smoothbores, the 4.2 is rifled, has a range of two miles. Yet the shells slide straight in, without engaging the rifling. The sliding shell hits a pin in the mortar which sets it off. A disk at the base of the shell expands under pressure of the gases, engaging the rifling, thus imparting rotation to the shell...