Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...osophone," an instrument designed to enable deaf people to hear through their teeth, and the "hypnobioscope," an electrical device for educating people while they sleep. During the war Gernsback has advanced a great variety of military ideas, all described in plausible detail, including a flying tank which would shed its wings when it landed, and radio-controlled vehicles which might be sent ahead of an army to explode land mines...
Stanford, 7 June, 1902 "So there is no maw gaw to shed in the Baw Waw. The paw praw-Baws will feel saw ! The praw-Baws are an awful baw! They gained no eclaw by taking the flaw! I set no staw by them. They are rotten at the caw. So no maw from...
...factory's pride is a huge 500-ton hydraulic press, bought in the U.S. before the war, removed from its first site and reassembled in midwinter in a roofless, windowless shed...
Bombing. Said British Corporal William McLoughlan: "In two or three minutes-I give you my word for this-the factory had been flattened. Not a building except one shed was standing when the Americans went away. Everybody was thunderstruck by the whole thing. Every one of the bombs fell exactly inside the target area. It was perfection bombing." That was his account of a U.S. Eighth Air Force raid on an unspecified German airplane factory...
...directed toward its target by a parent aircraft." He did not add, but London heard, that other "surprises" had been detected in Western Europe's defenses. Clearly, the Prime Minister in his hour of triumph was not forgetting that all the blood and tears have not yet been shed...