Word: employable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cooking yourself (even though you still employ a total of 635,000 full-or part-time servants) and it must be pretty tasty, for your husbands vote almost unanimously that the meals you serve are better than they get at their favorite restaurants . . .you make sure you know what's at the movies before you let the children go ... you go to church (more often than your husband does) . . . you keep up with other reading as well as the news (you own 241 books, buy about eight new ones a year) . . . you like to entertain, have guests...
Telephone engineers do not believe that the new system will end the need for operators; despite wide installation of local dialing systems, the telephone companies today employ more operators than ever before (because telephone use has increased). But the new device seems to foreshadow a day when men will seldom hear an operator's voice...
Recent camouflage techniques employ the use of natural vegetation in the combat zones. The experimenters from the staffs of the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard forest, Biological Laboratories, and Maria Moors Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research have compiled figures on the "lasting period of cut foliage." Heretofore, the time in which this camouflage material would wilt in the field was unknown by any authorities...
Last week the gadget came off the secret list. It is the Piat (Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank) and it fires a 2.75-lb. bomb which explodes on impact with a violence sufficient to penetrate four inches of tempered armor plate. But the Piat does not employ the bazooka's rocket principle. Its projectile, like a mortar shell, is propelled by the explosion of a cartridge in the base. Rear half of the tube houses a powerful steel spring which takes up the recoil, re-cocks itself and operates the firing pin for the next shot. In combat...
...seasoned Anti-Saloon League and the potent Methodist Board of Temperance, prefers to work quietly and without publicity in a campaign to dry up individual counties through local-option laws and gradually elect Congressmen favorable to their cause. Many of the nation's 100-odd dry organizations energetically employ both techniques...