Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany and France, was visiting Manhattan for the first time last week. A cultivated and witty talker, he seized on a bowl of popcorn to illustrate his working methods to reporters. "I begin with something like this," he explained, delicately selecting a kernel and gazing at it through tortoise-shell glasses. "I see just what expression it takes and develop that. Now this little bump here looks like a branch. Turn it around and we have a head, or a flower. But I don't want a head, a branch or a flower, so I mold...
...developed at Peiping, now in its 30th day of siege, but the form it took cannot be divulged. The censor is obdurate. He is not convinced that the facts he is trying to conceal will sooner or later leak out . . . Let the censor explain why you cannot say a shell exploded about 100 feet from the office where two Americans were working . . . Let him explain why you cannot say other shells exploded . . . Finally, let the censor answer the question, 'If the Reds shell a city, do they or don't they know...
...feeble gravitation of the satellite itself. No one knows whether human bodies would function under such conditions. One proposed solution: making the satellite spin. This would produce centrifugal force that would act like gravitation. Then the satellite's crew, walking around on the inside of the shell, would feel more or less at home...
Henry Foster (H) defeated Webb (UC), 3-2; Shell (UC) defeated Hugh Foster (H), 3-1; Tashjain (UC) defeated Clark (H), 3-0; McKittrick (H) defeated Vanderhoff (UC), 3-0; Lebeowich (UC), defeated Ames...
...plentiful: prices of gasoline and fuel oil were being reduced. Soft coal was also piling up, partly because of a drop in exports. Many Kentucky and West Virginia mines had cut back to a three-or four-day work week. Said Bert A. Astrup, assistant general sales manager for Shell Oil Co.: "We've rounded the Horn and we're in a buyers' market...