Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...naval officer he requested combat duty, got it as flag secretary to Admiral William Halsey, who called him "a great naval officer." He saw plenty of action, went without sleep for 70 hours evacuating U.S. prisoners from Japan after...
Last week, for perhaps the first time in history, Manhattan gallerygoers saw a private collection of Chinese masters they could be sure of. The paintings dated from the 8th to the 18th Centuries; each of them had been traced all the way back and authenticated by one of the few living connoisseurs who really can: a Shanghai collector named Chang...
...series of experiments, continued for the rest of his life, with new combinations of clay, flint and bone, new firing methods and temperatures, and new glazes. Smallpox cost him a leg, but that gave him all the more time to meditate on the potter's trade. "I saw the field was spacious," he wrote, "and the soil so good as to promise an ample recompense to anyone who should labor diligently in its cultivation...
Pilot Chin circled and zigzagged over the range (most of the time at 18,000 ft.), found no competitors for Mt. Everest. The tallest peak he saw (22,000 ft.) was not among the Amne Machins but in the Kuolo range near by. Tallest Amne Machin peak observed: 19,000 ft. Drawled Chin: "I never thought those mountains were very high. But I didn't expect they'd be that damn...
...tube to film by a special photographic and developing process, then "fed continuously to a projector and flashed to the screen. The whole converting operation (tube-to-film-to-screen) took only 66 seconds. Images were bright and well-defined, and the sneak preview was hailed by all who saw it. The mere mention of Brooklyn brought such a storm of cheers, however, that most of the audience missed the explanation and thought the telecast was a newsreel...