Word: fluid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fluid Drive. In Detroit, fined $150 for reckless driving, Lauri E. Niemi pleaded guilty, confided that he had been traveling by car because "I was too drunk to walk...
Allen Thomas is now ninth, Bob Brown tenth, Landon Thomas eleventh, and Batts Wheeler twelfth. These positions are quite fluid and will probably shift. Thomas is the highest ranking sophomore, Stone, a senior, Wheeler and Brown, juniors. There are fifteen others on the squad, but these look like twelve who will see most of the varsity action. In a team year, the Crimson has an excellent team to defend its national championship...
...Zernike's microscope works on a different principle. The material in even the most transparent organism generally differs in density from the fluid around it, and light travels at slightly different speed through materials of different density. The phase contrast microscope contains special screens that make the speed difference visible. Transparent amoebae and bacilli, unstained and still kicking vigorously, show up well in its field...
Ashcan school (gloomy photography) baby legs (short-legged tripod) butterfly (shadow beneath a subject's nose) darkroom widow (a hypo hound's wife) Dinky-Inkie (small spotlight) dynamite (strong developing fluid) high hat (low camera support for "worm's eye" pictures) lens louse (he muscles into someone else's picture) soot & whitewash (a print that has no middle tones) willy (a soft, fuzzy picture...
...nine men who had been making adjustments on the hydraulic machinery, were dead. FBI agents combed the blackened passages for evidence of sabotage. This week a special Navy board of inquiry opened hearings in Boston, and Commanding Officer Ahroon offered his explanation: an explosion of "vaporized or atomized" hydraulic fluid. The board of inquiry withheld its official verdict, pending further investigation, and the Navy added up its losses: 36 dead, 40 injured, one badly crippled carrier...