Word: platee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plus full repayment of the investment in 15 years, is expected to be about half the $3.32 a ton it now costs to ship coal to Cleveland by rail. Although the pipe is a possible competitor of the railroads, three of them-the Pennsylvania, New York Central and Nickel Plate-allowed the pipeline to cross their right of ways in return for an option to buy 45% of the pipeline-operating company's stock. If the pipeline proves trouble-free when full-scale operation starts April 7, the industry expects it to be widely copied and the market...
...called a "plasma jet." A stream of inert gas such as argon is passed through a high intensity electric discharge. The resulting heat forces a jet of highly ionized gas out a small hole at enormous speed and temperature (even a small jet will quickly chew through a steel plate). Since the jet is largely ionized (electrically charged) particles, it can be accelerated by electric and magnetic fields and forced through a flaring nozzle up to ten to 15 times the speed of sound, the velocity of missiles and space vehicles...
Sammy froths at the mouth when he is angry, attacks with equal greed girls on the make or spaghetti on the plate at Lindy's. Even his director hates him: "He walks as if the whole studio were a sewage system-and he has to reach the door without touching anything." But the director, and all the others around him, need Sammy more than he needs them...
...Fatigay return to the Congo, the groom tells shipboard interviewers: "My message to your readers is simply this. It is true my wife is not a woman. She is an angel . . . Behind every great man there may be a woman, and beneath every performing flea a hot plate, but beside the only happy man I know of-there is a chimp...
...Master's Office). Across from him, icy, stone-faced officials jotted down the long list of damages inticed by his three small charges. Robert, Leon and Tzara. during the train journey from France ("1 Porcelain Washbasin with Lid, property of the Mittel-Europaeische Schlafwagen Gesellschaft. 1 Enamelled Notice-Plate marked VERBOTEN, property of the Preusfische Staats-Eisenbahm," etc.). Julius begged the little monsters: "Now if you will only be good a little longer, you'll be in your own nice beds with a glass of delicious hot milk." And grabbing Robert (who had skipped behind a vacant desk...