Word: smasher
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...Smasher. In stage center, Elizabeth blossomed as she never had in the back row. Reporters called her a natural, and radiomen crooned in delight when, at the end of her first broadcast, she ad-libbed a homey little touch by asking Margaret to say goodnight to the British evacuees abroad. Stage-struck from childhood, and on her own at last, Elizabeth was in her element, even if she did sometimes take her duties too seriously. On one dreadful occasion, when she was invited to review the graduating class at a famous officers' training school, Elizabeth had promptly pointed...
...table and clear a path to the ladies' room. Elizabeth is sometimes curt and often imperious. At a Palace party, when she found a friend powdering her nose in a corridor, Elizabeth snapped: "This is not the cloakroom." Nevertheless she is highly popular among her wellborn friends. "A smasher of a girl," most of them...
...colleagues an outstanding authority in the field of atomic energy, Wilson is presently engaged in developing the massive new University cyclotron that will be assembled near Oxford and Everett Streets sometime this spring. Cement-pouring operations on the three-foot concrete base that will support the atom-smasher will be speeded up by the recent break in a cold spell that had frozen the site...
Sometime this spring shiny segments of a new University atom-smasher will begin to arrive at what was once a vacant plot of Oxford and Everett streets, where a three-foot thick concrete foundation for the elephantine cyclotron is now reaching completion...
...story red brick control building is linked to the cyclotron by a narrow corridor, carrying electrical conduits, ventilating paraphenalia, and other connecting fibers that will put life into the atom-smasher...