Word: markely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bank Exchange there was a high mahogany bar, its top worn smooth, it was said, by the sleeves of Mark Twain, Bret Harte and others whose tongues and voices were loosened and made eloquent by that ambrosial drink...
Turboprops are a sort of halfway mark between piston engines and the turbojets that drive fighter airplanes. Their inside works are very like the jets', but instead of putting all their propulsive energy into a blast of hot gas shot out the tailpipe, they extract some of it by means of a turbine set in the blast and use it to drive a conventional propeller. This compromise gives turboprops some advantage. They are simpler and lighter than piston engines, and they burn cheap, nonexplosive kerosene instead of high-octane gas. Unlike turbojets, they do not have...
...similar decision last week, a New Orleans judge threw out the price-fixing provisions of Louisiana's alcohol control law, which compelled retailers to mark up whisky at least 33⅓%, wines 40% and cordials...
Damned Embarrassing. Last week the Captain found out just how grateful his students were. They had come by the scores from all over California to attend a dinner to mark his retirement from teaching. The Captain was quick to make it clear that he wasn't saying goodbye for good: he hoped still to go on living...
...Hutchinson protested that it was all unfair, but everyone knew that the lottery had been run in perfect order, and the postmaster quietly went about preparing slips for another drawing in the Hutchinson family. The kids drew first, then the parents. Mrs. Hutchinson drew the slip with the black mark...