Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cliff Gates, a lean, six-foot Tennessean, became a Marine lieutenant in 1917. In France, he fought through Belleau Wood, Château-Thierry, Soissons and the Argonne Forest. Once, pinned in a pocket with only two men left alive in his company, he held off the Germans until fresh forces arrived. He had so many close calls that fellow officers named him "Lucky" Cates. Even so, he was wounded six times and gassed once, came home with a Navy Cross, a D.S.C. (with oak leaf cluster), a Croix de Guerre (with two palms and a gold star...
...merchants to eleven compact areas, built them shopping centers (against rent and a percentage of gross receipts) in Spanish, Elizabethan and Colonial styles. Home builders got a choice of one of three areas (large, medium-sized or small houses), where each could build a house according to his own pocket-book-and Nichols' choice of architecture...
Simultaneously, Sargent Kennedy, '28, registrar, announced that all College students will be able to pocket their "little white slips" by appearing in Memorial Hall today. The A's through the K's will be welcome from 11 to 1 o'clock, all others from 2 to 4 o'clock...
Incidentally, a much more widely used and better-known relative of the meter that you described in the article is the Gamma Ray Pocket Dosimeter. Latest models are no b.rger than a fountain pen. They are worn with a clip in the pocket, and indicate at any time during the day the total quantity of radiation that the wearer has absorbed and so whether it is safe to continue at work. (DR.) O. G. LANDSVERK Chicago...
...Vest-Pocket Vesuvius. A hot drink can easily be prepared in a snowstorm with a new pestle-like gadget called the Heatron Stirrer. It has a small cylinder on one end vhich contains a cartridge-like charge. Immersed in liquid, the stirrer gives off enough fumeless heat to bring a cup of water to the boiling point. Price, including six charges...