Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...given to drink is no different from the man on the other side of the fire door when he first starts imbibing, Bates said. But once he begins, he withdraws into his social shell, and cannot put down his glass. Unless he is shown how to stop, his habit will grow worse as he gets older...
...most striking aspects of the University's finances is the variety and number of different securities they encompass. It would be difficult for a student to make a purchase without some fraction of his money finding its way back, eventually, to 24 Milk Street. If he buys gasoline, whether Shell, Gulf, Standard, or Sinclair, he is contributing to Harvard dividends. Every time he buys Ivory Soap, Diamond Matches, Carnation Milk, Kodak Film, or Gillette Razor Blades, Harvard gets more money. He can hardly buy a drink without adding a trickle to a stream of dividends that totaled...
Wright Field has been experimenting with a pilot's seat that is shot out of the cockpit, pilot and all, by a 37-mm. shell. The difficulty is getting the seat out fast enough to clear the plane, but not so fast that the sudden acceleration will injure the human spine or break the hip bones. The prospects for this look fairly good. Wright Field workers have proved by experiments on themselves, says Baldwin, "that a man can take even the forces of 20 'Gs' [20 times the force of gravity] on his hip bones...
...inclusion which might surprise ex-Lieut. General Doolittle (now a Shell Union Oil Corp. executive...
...Natural History last week, Linde chemists displayed synthetic star stones that were red, blue, violet, soft grey and pink. No two were exactly alike, but through the high, rounded surface of each twinkled a six-pointed star. The biggest stone, a star ruby, was as big as a walnut shell and weighed more than 100 carats (.643 troy oz.). Beside the synthetics, many of the natural stones from the museum's collection looked pallid...