Word: pump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crack Nazi divisions along the Volga. This film wrings considerable suspense from a tactical explanation of how the battle was won. War films made by capitalists usually tell their stories from the common soldier's point of view. The Russians, concentrating on their brasshats, have managed to pump excitement into a series of scenes where most of the characters address one another as "Comrade General" and spend most of their time standing morosely around map tables discussing high strategy...
...recovered in his Orleans hotel room, which accompanied him during the war years on Pacific duty with the U. S. Navy, contained several changes if clothing, including bits of formal attire, that proved effective in helping him elide police detection. West smiled as he noted a single black dancing pump included in the inventory...
...first written her a beautiful poem, beginning "Sweet harp of Lune Villa!" and then drowned himself in the lily-pond (some said he only tripped and fell in), and about another adorer who was unfortunately "quite a common man. My mother directed the footman to put him under the pump." Grandmama never knew that the little girl, under cover of drawing butterflies, was recording every word in self-made shorthand, written in a script so tiny that no grownup could read it without a magnifying glass...
...illustrate the emergence of modern concepts through revised experimental methods, President Conant traced for his audience, by means of lantern slides, the seventeenth-century development of the air pump by Torricelli, von Guericke, and Boyle. The perfection of this simple mechanism resulted in a complete revision of the traditional concepts of atmosphere as a vacuum to the modern one of a weighable and elastic entity...
...live groups, some of the members of whom are refugees from the BVDeed Football Band have been serenading themselves and others for several weeks from a variety of locations. The two beat section, The Harvard Banana Orchestra (the band with appeal) featuring "Hot Lips" Loring, "Slush Pump" Pines, and "Spanker" Spencer holds forth on Wednesday evenings. The Gillespieites under "Rebop" Whitehouse give out on Thursdays. Holden Chapel, a building which has seen nearly everything during its two hundred and two years of existence is destined for at least one new sight when these two groups introduce it to le jazz...