Word: faints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though businessmen talked of supply catching up to demand in many a line, there were only a few faint signs that the boom was slowing down. In July, reported the Department of Commerce, individual income had fallen by $100 million from the June peak of $17.7 billion. Thanks to the drop in farm prices, commodity prices had also fallen steadily for three weeks, but were still only 1.1% below their peak last month...
...slightest excuse! They also gives milk. And as fo' meat-broiled, they makes th' finest steaks; fried, they come out th' yummiest chicken." The shmoo is so sensitive and so eager to please that when a human merely looks at it with a faint suggestion of hunger, the animal falls flat on its back and dies of happiness, all ready for the frying...
...vent in the tail, followed by a thin grey fog of atomized kerosene. Deep in the engine a single sparkplug buzzes. A spot of fire dances in a circle behind the turbine. Next moment, with a hollow whoom, a great yellow flame leaps out. It cuts back to a faint blue cone, a cone that roars like a giant blowtorch. The roar increases to thunder as the turbine gathers speed. Then it diminishes slightly, masked by a strange, high snarl that is felt rather than heard. This is "ultrasonic" sound (a frequency too high for the ear to hear...
Ghosts Know. The speed of sound! That magic and frightening quantity dominates the dreams of high-speed plane designers. It is no mere landmark, no mere handy figure for public relations officers. It is basic: the speed with which a "compression wave" (whether a faint whisper or the crushing shock wave of an atomic explosion) moves through air. The actual speed varies considerably with the air's temperature (the colder the slower). To eliminate this variability from their figuring, scientists have given the speed of sound a special name. In aerodynamics, the speed of sound in any air under...
...last the Communist New York Daily Worker's Rob F. Hall went to the rescue by asking Wallace to discuss "progressive capitalism." After that, wrote Pegler, "the incident dissolved in a cloud of Oriental incense and a faint, distant tinkle of Chinese gongs...