Word: knife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weigh only tiny quantities. Scales big enough to handle good-sized samples are not nearly as sensitive. Last week Dr. Alsoph H. Corwin of Johns Hopkins University told about a scale that he has developed which is both strong and sensitive. Its beam teeters on a finely polished knife edge of boron carbide (almost as hard as diamond), resting on the same material. The edge is so sharp that the pressure on its minute bearing surface is 25,000 Ibs. per sq. in. It must be handled with extraordinary care to keep this great force from blunting it. The scale...
ARMY MEDICAL SERGEANT DAVID B. BLEAK, 21, of Shelley, Idaho: Entered a trench, killed two enemy soldiers with his bare hands and a third with his trench knife, shielded another U.N. soldier from a grenade blast, and evacuated a wounded companion. "As he moved down the hill with his heavy burden, he was attacked by two enemy soldiers with fixed bayonets ... he grabbed them and smashed their heads together...
...London, Mounted Policeman James J. Goss won a divorce on grounds of cruelty after he charged that his wife Janet had 1) hidden his cigarettes and newspapers, 2) frequently kicked and bitten him, 3) broken a pot on his head, 4) thrown a poker at him, 5) stuck a knife in his back...
State of Readiness. In San Francisco, asked by police why he was carrying a hammer, pliers, and a spring-blade knife under his coat. Harry Hoster readily explained that he needed the tools because the heel on his shoe kept working loose...
...prowler who accosted the Linnaean Street resident reportedly drew a knife, and asked the girl if she "wanted to go for a walk." She started walking, but when she reached her house, broke away and ran inside