Word: naphtha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stands for Ads. What are ads? Movie ads are tempting and alluring advertisements which entice you not to miss the pictures they are advertising, but in spite of which people go to see the pictures anyway. . . . The most gifted ad-writer of them all was Magnum J. Naphtha...
...Naphtha (singing...
...Byzantine Empire held off the Saracens for generations with Greek fire -a mixture of pitch, sulfur, quicklime and naphtha squirted from siphon-like devices. Gunpowder outmoded Greek fire in the 14th Century, and the steel warships of the 19th Century outmoded the red-hot cannonballs which often ignited wooden frigates...
...m.p.h. was breakneck speed for a "naphtha launch." Last week, when the 37th Gold Cup race was staged at Northport Harbor on Long Island Sound, two entries boasted speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h.: Lou Fageol's So Long (97.451 m.p.h. over a measured mile) and George Cannon's Gray Goose III (92.309 m.p.h.). Motorboats have gone faster (Sir Malcolm Campbell's Bluebird II hit 141 m.p.h. last year), but for a Gold Cup boat, limited to engines of 600 to 732 cu. in. piston displacement, 97 m.p.h. was going some...