Word: spray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abreast of the Navy patrol vessel marking our line of departure, the assault waves bunched up and shells fell in among them. We needed no order. We broke column, went into a skirmish position and throbbed toward shore like so many racing boats, close together, with motors roaring and spray flying...
Arts & Crafts. In Hollywood, tragediennes started considering retirement: war had produced a shortage of menthol spray, which had produced tears. In the same town, Producing Artists, Inc. devised the first invisible movie title-just a long, admiring whistle on a sound track...
...vehicle staging area (Armyese for any place where troops and supplies are readied for overseas), women workers grinned through their grease. With spray gun and grease gun. the women coated the glass of vehicles destined for deck load so no warning reflection would betray the convoy, smeared the underparts for protection against salt spray. They drained gas tanks and radiators, checked and charged batteries, sealed all engine openings...
...constant temperature. Because of its safety, the U.S. Navy and Maritime Commission use it exclusively on ships and submarines. Then last May the Surgeon General's office showed up with a malarial mosquito-killer called an aerosol, publicized as the "mosquito bomb." The "Mosquito Bomb" is a spray gun holding about one pound of insecticide...
...Naval Unit's experiments, mice inhaled a fine spray of specially treated horse serum and then received large doses of mouse-influenza organisms in their noses. The mice proved immune to influenza and stayed that way about six days. The doctors think that the Russian method is successful because it puts influenza antibodies (blood elements which fight the disease) where they are needed...