Word: disks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having filled out our fitness reports, the incidence of billet fever should become high. Many men are torn between choosing what they would like to do and what they think others would expect then to do. Some do not want to disk for shore billets because they do not want to appear to be evading combat service. Our own feeling in the matter is that each man should indicate the place and position in which he thinks he can be of greatest service to the Navy. That is the important thing and if everyone will follow that rule the overall...
Chief exponent of this theory is an Ohio experimental farmer named Edward H. Faulkner. He believes that plowing is responsible for erosion and most other ills of the U.S. soil. He tested his theory by using a cultivation method of his own: instead of plowing he disk-harrowed the soil and planted his crops in the chopped-up surface stubble, weeds and debris. His harvest was astonishing. Many a farmer who reads his newly published report (Plowman's Folly; University of Oklahoma Press; $2) may be tempted never to plow, again...
Drawing starts with a round chunk or disk of steel which is cupped, then elon gated by a series of punches and dies which work the metal into cylindrical shape. The open end is trimmed or tapered, the base machined to shape. Between draws, which harden the steel, the cartridge case must be annealed. To protect it from corrosion and sparking it must also be varnish-sprayed and baked...
...microphone actuates an electromagnet which records the sounds on a thin wire moving through it (by magnetically rearranging the molecular structure of the wire). The spool of wire, loaded with its temporary magnetic record, can then be sent away and "played back'' for radio broadcasting or transcription disk recording...
...second stanza, Collinson again sent the disk home to sow up the game. The play was fast and furious throughout, and the tilt turned out to be one of the most thrilling of the current season...