Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Right. Harold Laski would have found Crusader Johnston's lecture to a British Chambers of Commerce luncheon later in the week just as bewildering. Eric Johnston told his hosts: "We ought to put a dead stop to all this palaver . . . about how blood is thicker than water," base U.S.-British relations on the facts about the two nations...
...given a spinal shot. He saw the doctor's arm moving, his own leg lifted, the blood vessels tied off. Four times Lawson looked at the silver saw in White's hand. He could hear the teeth cutting through thicker and thinner parts...
...There I was right on the fifty-yard line of the darndest dogfight you ever saw. Zeros and American planes were thicker than flies at suppertime. They were all shooting - seemed to be shooting at me. My burns weren't hurting much, but I was pretty sure they would after a while, so I pulled out my first-aid kit and had myself a shot of morphine. I worked my way down out of the dogfights and was ready to say 'safe at last' again, when three Zeros came down...
Wafers of Accuracy. Sawed into thin slabs, usually no bigger or thicker than a postage stamp, quartz determines a radio sending or receiving channel with hairbreadth accuracy. Tanks with quartz oscillators, for instance, can converse in battle without enemy interference, changing frequencies merely by changing crystals. Using quartz controls, radio stations stay on the beam; hundreds of conversations ride pickaback along a single telephone circuit and are properly unscrambled at the receiving...
...pilot, hurtled the length of the cabin, broke into the baggage compartment in the tail. A 15-lb. turkey easily breaks conventional safety glass even at speeds under 100 m.p.h. Westinghouse shoots its chickens and turkeys at velocities up to 400 m.p.h. Results of the test: recommendations for thicker windshields than the usual safety glass. One type of panel developed has tempered glass on the outside, an air space, then two panes of glass holding a half-inch filling of plastic. Exhaust heat is circulated through the air space to prevent ice. This has withstood the impact...