Word: strainer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your article was interesting-TIME always is -but remember that Peruvians who read it laughed, as did Juan Leguia himself, the fat and banished whiskey strainer...
...murder stories, well deserves to be considered an Old Hand. His gradual fame spread long ago to the U. S., was fanned when curious newshawks discovered that the late President Wilson, stalwart Fletcherite, was wont to read him into the small hours in the Presidential bed. No extremist, no strainer after gruesome effects or heart-clutching surprises, Author Fletcher tells quietly a plain and fairly plausible tale, introduces no supermen, no omniscient gods of the crime world. If you are tired of Sherlock Holmeses and their attendant Watsons you may find Author Fletcher's detectives a pleasant change...
Because of that ever present hazard, fuel is ordinarily strained into an airplane's tanks through chamois or billiard-table felt, which are impervious to water. The process is slow and not without danger of fire, as the strainer easily becomes clogged with sediment and the funnel full of gasoline is constantly exposed to static electricity. Last week it. was disclosed that the Army Air Corps had adopted a filtering device with neither of these bad features, invented by Master Sergeant David Samiran, stationed at Wright Field, Ohio. The invention, known as a segregator, is based on the difference...