Word: liquidates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former editors are invited to the little red building at 14 Plympton Street today after the Commencement exercises. They will get a chance to see how Cambridge's only breakfast table daily has grown in the last few years, and also to sample some of the CRIMSON's famed liquid hospitality...
...fire with a crude sand-painting of the moon beside it. While the "peyote priest" fussed with the sand-painting, a tin tub full of water was boiling. Peyote buttons were dumped into it. After they had softened, they were fished out and passed around to be chewed. The liquid was doled out in cups. After that, said the observer, it was "every man for himself." Men hopped up with peyote, he reported, "are likely to grab the closest female, whatever age, kinfolk...
Alcohol in liquid form is still the only way to get drunk effectively. According to tests completed recently by two Yale scientists, just breathing in the vapor...
Most airmen thought that the future lay in liquid-cooled engines, like the Hispano-Suiza, and in flivver planes. But Rentschler staked his poker player's bet that the future lay with big engines, big military and commercial planes and air-cooled engines. An engineer named Charles L. Lawrance began experimenting with an air-cooled engine in which the Navy was interested, but he was having trouble with production bugs. Rentschler bought out Lawrance, eliminated the bugs and perfected the engine as Wright's Whirlwind. By 1924, he was making engines for both Army & Navy planes, and Wright...
Empire Building. In Chance Vought's first Corsair observation-fighter, and in William E. Boeing's fighters, the engine proved itself so conclusively that the Navy almost entirely abandoned liquid-cooled engines, and the Army also bustled to get Wasp-powered planes. Bill Boeing, quick to grasp what the Wasp would do to commercial air transport costs, grabbed the first Chicago-San Francisco airmail contract by underbidding everybody else by nearly half. To everybody's amazement, he made money doing it, and gave commercial flying a tremendous boost. Explained Boeing: "We would rather carry more mail than...