Word: kinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...verge of their degree or with a single term to complete. Bowe explained, had to be given the first crack at the high priority courses. The eligibility of the fifth-termers for the same material is a kink left over from three term per annum wartime acceleration...
...running," implied it would soon be turning out one-seventh of the U.S. butadiene. Actually only half the plant has been completed. The remainder will not be finished until April. And getting a butadiene plant into peak production may easily take six months, with each new production kink a complex problem that may shut the entire plant for days...
...patch for bullet and flak holes. Said an A.S.C. general to bug-eyed factory engineers back in the U.S.: "Did you know that you could straighten a prop blade by wedging it in the bumper of a two-and-a-half-ton truck, then backing the truck until the kink was gone. ... It was done and the airplane flew...
Most of the Freshmen being beginners, they were automatically relegated to the training barge. Those who had had some prep school experience were put into boats right away, but many of them were sooner or later transferred back to the Leviathan where Harvey could help them iron out some kink in their form, and to date, almost all the Freshmen out for crew have had their turn in the barge...
...Crimson has been weakest on the bases, going from radical dare-deviling to conservative timidity over night. Partially the result of the inavailability of outdoor practice, Coach Stahl expects to be able to straighten out that kink in the coming weeks...