Word: skim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...library would be filed books, newspapers, notes, memoranda, photographs, etc. To refer to any item, a user would tap its code number on a keyboard-like dialing a phone number -and it would be projected on one of the screens. He could read page by page or skim. By means of dry photography (like facsimile), he could write marginal notes on the screen and have them reproduced on the microfilm...
Better Half. In Windsor, Ont., Goalie Jim Hogan stopped half of a flying hockey puck with his armpit, saw the second half skim into the net, protested when officials allowed the goal...
...begin with, skim over your notes lightly. Beat well with an unslid slide rule and dispose of the remains over your left shoulder as indifferently as you would a pinch of salt. Now you are on your...
...they moved toward a strength of 2,000,000 officers and men, the naval services had exhausted the volunteer pools, could no longer pick & choose. To the suggestion that they skim off the physical cream of the draft, the Army for good reason answered with a resounding "No." The end was a compromise, but it was close to what the Navy asked...
...potatoes, 65% for onions, beets and carrots, 50% for egg powder, prepared desserts, dehydrated soups. Beef for stews in one-inch chunks squeezes down 70%, hamburger bulk is reduced 55%. Puffed rice, voluminous as a pound of feathers, can be compressed 86%. Puffed rice, combined with powdered skim milk and sugar in a lozenge, can, with the addition of warm water, swell into a mess cup full of ready-to-eat breakfast food...