Word: traces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...able to lubricate, disassemble and make ready the torpedo. Know the names and be able to recognize the use of all special tools used with torpedoes. Be able to charge a torpedo and to handle war heads. Understand and be able to trace fuel, air, water and oil lines in torpedoes. Be able to balance a gyro and know the theory of the gyro. Be able to carry out all regulations in regard to care, repair and tests of torpedo and torpedo mechanisms. Know the application of Ohm's law, Kirzchoff's law and other principles of electricity. Understand Navy...
...reader may thus trace from start to semi-finish a concentrated history of thumbnail memoranda on such subjects as God, boredom, marriage, work, Government, lawyers, shoals of others. He may learn the Golden Rule not only from the New Testament but from Confucius, Isocrates, Tobit, the Mahabharata, Hillel Ha-Babli; such shy self-revelations as the U.S. proverb: "Do others or they will do you," or Bernard Shaw's "Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." The reader can observe that, whereas there is much...
...lead carefully indicated. Artist Nicolas writes a number on each to tell his glazier assistants which of 500 shades of colored glass he wants in that particular place. The cartoon is then cut up like a picture puzzle. Assistants cut out pieces of glass from these patterns and trace on them the remaining lines of Nicolas' drawing. Then the various colored pieces are reassembled and glued with liquid wax to a large, trans parent plate-glass pane...
...industry's front line is manned by a little battalion of unknown men in battered felt hats, sitting shirt-sleeved in cubbyhole factory offices, darting out among the machines, spitting tobacco juice, profanity and ideas. These are Detroit's production men, fresh up from the ranks, a trace of grease still under their stubby fingernails. They know machines as only men can who have handled them. They are the men who play by ear, with near-perfect pitch. With dog-eared notebooks, pencil stubs and know-how they work out production problems that no textbook could solve...
Some readers will think not. They can nevertheless read Mr. Churchill for its author's sense of history as a pageant of personalities, his eye for vivid, incongruous detail, his ability to compress masses of fact into a smooth ribbon of narrative. They can also read it to trace the development of Winston Churchill from the specious Victorian calm into which he was born, until, an old man, he put the will of a battered empire into four words: "We shall never surrender...