Word: strut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than 200 members of the Military Science department will strut their stuff on the soccer field at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon before government inspector Colonel Leroy P. Collins, Chief of Staff of this corps area, several deans, and the Overseer's Visiting Committee on Military Science. All members of the University are welcome...
Passengers will arrive under a strut-free, translucent canopy projecting 100 feet from the principal waiting room, drive out of the airdrome along underground roads...
...eight greatest show-song writing teams working for him. Spectators are still trying to remember how the Rodgers & Hart tune goes when the band begins playing an even better one by George & Ira Gershwin. There is Gracie Barrie to keep the good songs ringing clear, Buxom Mitzi Mayfair to strut the hot numbers, Paul Haakon to leap through the smooth ones. There is Bert Lahr, the most emphatic comedian on the revue stage, as a noisy Hollywood actor trying to chisel out of paying his income tax and as an over-manly baritone in a hickory shirt bellowing, "What...
Metallic Energy. To establish the strength of a metal engineers squeeze or pull (static tests) or hit (impact test) a sample piece until it breaks. Though one test is as good as another, none really explains why an automobile bolt occasionally cracks, an airplane strut snaps, a battleship's armor plate yields. By building a machine which hits a piece of metal with the whack of a bullet traveling 1,000 ft. per sec., H. C. Mann of Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal discovered that when a piece of metal is struck a very strong blow, its molecules release some...
With the business centres of Tokyo, the cream of the swank embassy district and an increasing number of Japanese public buildings in their hands, the young Army mustards did not swagger, did not strut. Their informal eating and drinking place was soon the Sanno Hotel. When a white correspondent asked daringly if he might come in and look around, a mustard sergeant nodded and smiled, "Certainly. I regret that you cannot book a room, however...