Word: tor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lockheed has built a lightweight fighter called the F-104 tor the Air Force, but because of security restrictions can say only that the new plane, reportedly supersonic, is now being flight-tested at Edwards Air Force Base in California...
Short Tractor. The smallest truck trac tor on the market (96 in. from bumper to back of cab) is rolling off production lines at the White Motor Co. in Cleve land. By canting the 200 h.p. diesel engine 20° to the right, White engineers have saved more than a foot of space, which can be used for cargo. Thus the new tractor can haul a 35-ft. trailer and still keep within the 45-ft. overall limit set by most states. Price of the new tractor...
...quid o' baccy. Seems like them college fellers has it in real bar fer Joe M'Carthy, 'Course, when I think o' some o' th' things Joe says 'bout Pussy an' commie-coodlin' at Harvard, can't say as I blame 'em. An' th' way th' Sen'tor wuz feudin' with thet army feller (heard that one over in th' ray-dee-o), I kin git pretty damn well het up m'self...
...Innerfield cautions that trypsin must be used with care, and only in cases of acute inflammatory reaction where the cells undergoing changes are not irretrievably damaged. If this is done, he told his Toledo audience, intramuscular trypsin is "safe and effective." Asked one doc- tor: What about using trypsin for coronary thrombosis, a disease for which it was once thought to be valuable? Answered Researcher Innerfield, who is just beginning a long series of tests in this matter: "In three years I hope to be able to help...
...traveler. He began traveling early in life, he says, simply because his father, Actor Eddie Dowling, and his mother, Comedienne Ray Dooley, "were always on the road." At about the age of one year John made his own stage debut. It was a vaudeville act in which an ac tor uncle carried him across the stage in a harness arrangement made of diapers fitted with a suitcase handle...