Word: liquidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First the plasmodia enter the oxygen-bearing red blood cells. From the liquid part of the blood oozes a sticky jelly which clumps all the cells together. These clumps are gobbled down by white blood corpuscles. If the white cells are strong enough, the body wins...
...battle rages, the white cells may be outnumbered. The linings of blood vessels become sticky, and white cells cling to them like flies to fly paper. As the red clumps grow larger, the liquid part of the blood turns thick and sludgy, and the heart is harder and harder put to it to pump against the blockade. When circulation stagnates, the body's oxygen is cut off. and finally the heart stops...
...Britain). But Larry Bell last week had on hand only one of the 37-mm. cannon which fire through the Airacobra's nose. He had only one propeller designed for the cannon (which projects through a hole in the propeller hub). Worst of all he had only three liquid-cooled, in-line Allison engines...
General Motors Corp.'s Allison-making subsidiary in Indianapolis has had many a headache, many a delay. This was to be expected: all new engines have "bugs," and the liquid-cooled Allison was a daring departure from the radial, air-cooled engines which had become standard in the U. S. In August, Allison expected to turn out 130 engines, actually produced 80, most of which went to Curtiss-Wright. These still had bugs, were limited to 950 instead of their rated 1,050 h.p. Last week the Army heard good Allison news for a change: that the last bugs...
...first straight, then hot. The authentic afflatus descended upon Café Society on its opening night, when a pale young man, one of the guests, stepped up with a clarinet. It was Benny Goodman, just recovered from long illness (sciatica). When he sent out Somebody Stole My Gal, pure, liquid, brilliant, the place rocked...