Word: gushes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emily Post writes (TIME, Aug. 19) regarding Russel Wright cups-"A thick edge-especially one curving inward-defies every effort of human lips to hold back the gush of liquid which dribbles down the sides...
...lips have performed their human functions for 37 years. For five years they lave been drinking from Russel Wright cups neatly, and I hope politely, with no problems of gush and dribble...
...Gush & the Dribble...
...that he himself test the "practicability" of the 18th Century cup whose fine and slightly flaring rim was skillfully designed to check the escape of any drop of liquid down its side. A thick edge-especially one curving "inward-defies every effort of human lips to hold back the gush of liquid which dribbles down the sides and even makes a ring in the saucer...
...radar and captured German optical instruments, the rocket had climbed 75 miles into the ionosphere. Three minutes after its start, it hurtled downward, hit the ground 39 miles to the northward at 2,400 miles an hour, and, reported a watching Army flyer, buried itself in sand with a gush of flame...