Word: fluidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their troubles. Braking spades on gun carriages snap off on the first recoil; in extreme cold some explosives become unstable and are either dangerous to handle or hard to fire. Americans and Canadians, working in parallel experiments, are still trying to figure the best way to keep engine oils fluid...
...matched almost pitch for pitch by the performance of Lionel "The Toy" Train. Train's fluid drive alone geared his pitches up to an estimated speed of six zwoncuses a minute...
...semi-hysterical out-bursts. But such melodramatics seem to be inherent in the play. Similarly, co-directors Roy Erickson and Burt Kelsey have far too often permitted the actors to stand in awkward groups in the canter of the stage. If more imagination had been exerted, more realistic and fluid action could undoubtedly have been devised, but again the basic difficulty seems to lie in the play itself, which handicaps the director by substituting pseudo-eloquence for drama...
...made a bold effort to start afresh. They went into the fields, where perspective laws barely apply, and painted in broad daylight, with the sun behind them, to shake the tyranny of shadows from their colors. The best results, done in bright contrasting dabs of pigment, shone with a fluid sparkle new to art, but surprisingly enough they still looked like windows on an illusory world. The revolution had just begun...
...mesmerism and then hypnotism (from a Greek word meaning sleep). In Mesmer's day, "magnetism" was the scientific catchword that "atomic" is today. Mesmer had already been kicked out of his native Vienna for acting on his belief that people got sick when they ran short of "magnetic fluid." He was out to show Paris that he could relieve the shortage. The Mesmer clinics are described in two recently published books: Hypnotism Comes of Age, by Bernard Wolfe and Raymond Rosenthal (Bobbs-Merrill; $3), and The Story of Hypnotism, by Robert W. Marks (Prentice-Hall...