Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Audience has more to offer when its column-tenants stick to their own experience. The poetry is generally original, in the spirit of experiment. Arthur Freeman metaphorizes Samuel Johnson's sensitive mind into a trailer-truck, a diesel, and a Pershing tank, in what is probably the volume's best poem. And Nathaniel Lamar's short verse on "A Dry Anthropologist at Sea" sent Lowell House contemporary culturists to chuckling in their...
...Tanks: The Soviets have equipped all major combat units with the diesel-powered, 53-ton T-54, which has a range of 250 miles, cruises at 30 m.p.h., carries a 100-mm. gun. U.S. officials concede that the T-54 is superior to its closest U.S. equivalent-the M48 Patton (49 tons, range 90 miles, high-velocity 90-mm. gun)-but they believe the T-54 may prove too heavy for effective use. are themselves looking for a fast new 30-ton tank. In the Moscow parade the Soviets also showed an antiaircraft tank, as big and mobile...
...fell on the hated Security cops, beat four of them to death. The rest retreated inside the building, broke out machine guns and rifles, and began firing for their lives. The battle raged bitterly for nine hours before the police fortress had been battered and set afire by army tank cannons; then the surviving cops surrendered and were trucked off to prison under army convoy...
...process, the machine first supercools the water to several degrees below freezing. To induce the formation of crystals the tank is then seeded by a tube which is cooled to an extremely low temperature. It takes about five minutes to make one crystal with the tanks regulated so there is always one crystal being formed...
...color of the snowflakes is due to two strips of polarizing material on either side of the tank. The colors are of all shades, depending on the thickness of the ice, the inclination of the light source to the crystal and the positions of the polarizing screens...