Word: liquidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jazz music than you would anywhere else. In the first place, the whole thing is completely informal. A few musicians get together and do their best to play what they think is good jazz music. And they generally have the right idea, often inspired by no end of liquid refreshment. Then, of course, everybody's playing for his own fun, and all commercial inhibitions are checked with the hats. Which means that you don't have to stop playing a tune after two or three choruses. You can build it up, and play around it, and do things to that...
Also under way were two projects which may prove to be Ford's most important contribution to national defense. One project is a 12-cylinder, 1,500-1,700 h.p., liquid-cooled airplane engine, with cast instead of forged cylinder sleeves and many simplifications of design. If that engine passes its laboratory tests successfully, it may be the answer to the industry's dream: an airplane engine which can be mass-produced...
...artificially as a group of actors reading a bad play for the first time, did London's A. R. P. squads hold their first rehearsal of defense against gas. For a semblance of reality, a harmless gas with a stench like musty hay had been slopped in liquid form inside the roped off arena...
...liquid-cooled power superior to air-cooled power in military airplanes? Should Detroit take over the aircraft industry? How many planes should we ship to Britain, how many keep for ourselves? Can our fighters stay in the same air with the Messerschmitt? What will be the status of international airlines when the war is over...
...cooled (radial) motors have a current edge in the air-cooled - liquid-cooled squabble largely because they have a longer engineering history. But the Germans have a compromise: an air-cooled, in-line engine which would combine the best features of both types...