Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because of the three or four irrepressibles who obeyed by falling flat on their faces. One day an ex-vaudevillian was assigned to calisthenic drill. "Inhale!" he shouted. The men inhaled. "Outhale!" They outhaled. "Sidehale!" "What the hell is that?" a regular corporal demanded. "A new breathing method. Field Manual 36-B, with Kreplach...
...feet long (minus its explosive head), six to seven feet in diameter at the middle, tapered at head and tail; it has a four-foot compartment filled with radio dials and gadgets by which its flight is directed. The methodical Germans had carefully packed a twelve-page manual of instructions with each giant rocket...
Nevertheless, the Boz's roommate, Ned Bailey, says that we should note how well Boz did in his Disbursing recitation; but that's only because he took the Manual and Memo home with him on leave--Ned saw him packing them. Now Ned says that even when he, Bailey, works his normal 23 hours a day he can't keep up with his roommate in this course...
...viol), a viole de gambe (six-stringed forerunner of the cello), a viole d'amour (whose seven steel strings vibrate in "sympathy" as the seven gut strings are played), a basse de viole (big forerunner of the stringed bass). He commissioned Pleyel of Paris to make a two-manual, six-pedal harpsichord...
...edition, at $15 a copy. This year's voracious appetite for romance brought its revival as a Ladies' Home Journal serial, and in a trade edition with a $10,000 promotion campaign by Publisher Holt. It reads like a blend of Black Beauty, The Stockbreeder's Manual and The Three Musketeers...