Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Astaire routine features a shelf-full of dancing shoes: trick photography at its grandest of course, but Astaire's grimaces when he sees a circle of shoes dancing on the floor, are enough to make the show worth seeing. Aside from a couple of Gershwin revivals, the music is no great shakes, but who cares about music when Fred Astaire is capering around the screen...
...Cowles), he had knocked the first issue together in four months. If the first issues caught on, Quick would probably go on a national distribution basis next month, get its own staff. Without ads, Cowles figured the new magazine would need 300,000 readers to break even. The trick for Quick was to find that number of busy people who would be satisfied to get their news of the world in the tiniest capsules ever dealt to them by any magazine...
...subtle and much-used trick is to neutralize an unpleasant odor. How this works is uncertain, but odor engineers have found many "odor pairs," i.e., smells that cancel each other. The smell of cedarwood, for instance, cancels the smell of rubber. Many offensive-smelling commodities are marketed at present with their natural odors neutralized by an odor antagonist...
...three years, then restacked cork down. Daily, an expert workman grasps and shakes each bottle, thus precipitating the sediment onto the cork. Five or more years after the date of vintage, the bottle is recorked for shipment. Speedup methods have long been used by American companies. The trick consists largely in maintaining vat temperature at 70° F., thereby stimulating the action of tiny, funguslike organisms known as saccharomycetes, which cause fermentation...
Coyotes, says Author Dobie, know how to play dead, disguise themselves, hunt in groups; they are said to climb to the same hilltop every evening to sing; they play jokes, trick other animals, imitate the sounds they hear, and they learn man's ways with incredible rapidity. Fences cannot keep these sly relations of the dog and the wolf out of a sheep range or a chicken yard: some Southwest natives believe that they talk to the fences and the fences open up and let them through. Barbed-wire fences had some trouble understanding them at first...