Word: knife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fiction FROM JUNGLE ROOTS-Marcos Spinelli -Covici-Friede ($2.50). The education of a Brazilian jungle aristocrat, who at twelve is an accomplished and uninhibited knife-thrower, horseman, liar and seducer...
...week ordered to drive against another Leftist balloon-shaped salient. This balloon, 3,125 sq. mi. of the rich, mineral-producing Estremadura region, bulged into Rightist, lines north of Cordoba and extended to within 50 miles of the Portuguese border. This week, as military observers had long expected, one knife thrust through thinly held Leftist lines did the trick. The balloon burst, leaving the Rightists in possession of several thousand prisoners, 5,000 head of cattle and the strategic copper, iron and lead-mining centre of Castuera...
...could read their thoughts from the colors they used. His method was to place a model on the beach, so that the brilliant background of sky and water forced students to see the head merely as a spot of color. He then gave students a big, broad-edged putty knife and a square of building board, and urged them to study color rather than drawing. "Painting is just getting one spot of color in relation to another spot of color," he would say. "Go out like a savage, as if paint had just been invented. . . . Don't paint thinly...
...have slipped into parachutes suspended in the cabin like oldtime fire-horse harness, pulled a lever that unpinned the door hinges, kicked their way to freedom. Floating down with them, attached to each 'chute, would have been a compact parcel containing 30 days' rations, water, a hunting knife, fishing tackle, a first-aid kit and snakebite remedy...
...first 500 ft. were like a "knife through cheese." There the driller switched to a 15¼-in. bit. At 9,500 ft., drilling speed had dropped to a foot an hour, and a new bit was needed every 25 ft. At 11,600 ft., the mud pressure was 9,000 lb. per sq. in. Apparently this huge force squeezed the water out of the mud into a porous sand formation at that depth, so that the mud caked and "froze" the bit collar. The drill pipe was fished out with difficulty but the collar was immovable. By means...