Word: salts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...average U.S. car-owner has a definite and jaundiced image of a hot-rod: a souped-up old jalopy driven by some wild-eyed youngster, usually seen bulling through traffic, fenders flapping and exhaust stacks rumbling. But last week, on Utah's Bonneville salt flats, a superior sort of hot-rod was in evidence: handsome, beautifully tuned machines built by safety-conscious young men who could talk intelligent shop with any engineer in Detroit...
Whipping over the flats, kicking up big rooster tails of salt dust, the racers looked more like shuttling ants than cars. A tiny Class "O" (91 cu. in. of cylinder space, the smallest classification) Lakester buzzed along at 111.46 m.p.h., a bigger version got up to 188.08 m.p.h., a sleek streamliner with two V-8 engines churning 600 h.p. reached 255.41 m.p.h. By the time the Nationals were over, U.S. records in 15 classes had been smashed, and the hot-rodders were just getting started...
...Cruel Sea. One of the best of the World War II films, based on Nicholas Monsarrat's bestseller and filled with the salt spray and shellbursts of naval warfare (TIME...
Default. In Salt Lake City, John W. Marx, suing for divorce after two years and ten months of marriage, charged that his wife Maria has "failed, neglected and refused to provide the plaintiff with necessities of life...
...smells that waft up to the Great Nose are pleasant. To "fix" the perfume by uniting other ingredients, perfumers use such sour or fetid-smelling substances as musk, castoreum (made from beavers' testicles), ambergris (a secretion in the sperm whale intestine), and civet glands. Explains Beaux: "Pepper and salt don't taste pleasantly when taken alone, but they enhance the taste of a dish." Beaux gives each essence the nose test because some scents will last after a week of exposure, while others, for some unknown reason, will last only a few7 hours. When he is creating...