Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bars, Rings and Golf Courses. In their lighter moments they build swank officers' messes in the deep jungles with handsome bars and flagged terraces (to the envy of the hard-living Army). In the South Pacific they laid out golf courses, constructed baseball diamonds, volleyball courts and movie amphitheaters. On Tulagi, Chief Machinist Mate Bernard M. Vinck hung out three coconuts for a pawnshop sign, began making "Tulagi Academy" rings, like the cherished Naval Academy rings-except that Vinck's were snail shell "cat's eyes" set in aluminum stripped from shot-down Jap planes...
...finders are not fooled by camouflage, and the little bit of concealment that it gave planes on the ground under enemy air attack is hardly needed any more. A shiny plane aloft is just as hard to see as a painted ship. An unpainted plane is also a little lighter, a little faster: without paint, fighters weigh less by 15 to 20 lb., bombers...
Designed for paratroops, amphibians and assault infantry, the new mask is lighter, easier to use and carry. The carrier may be worn in several positions-even strapped to the leg, in hot climates where soldiers may be naked to the waist...
...smooth young attorney in search of scandal, is also interested in her boss. Investigated at long last by the Senate, Planeman Tufts is saved only by Miss de Havilland's impetuous glorification, before the Committee, of Men Who Get Things Done. Amidst the dramatic moments is a lighter passage which depicts the romantic leads running hogwild through the streets of the Capital on a motorcycle neither of them can operate...
...increased circulation) for larger ones. Readers will have no trouble detecting the workings of this austerity plan if newspapers follow it to the letter (which is, in view of their 1943 record, not too likely). Magazines, which met the paper shortage more promptly, already show it in narrower margins, lighter paper, fewer ads and frozen circulations...