Word: tubularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Celtic queen (or princess, or priestess or high courtesan) must have been a gorgeous sight as she lay in death in her chariot. Around her neck was a collar of tubular bronze. On her breast were brooches and necklaces set with amber and stones. She wore bracelets of amber and anklets of hollow bronze...
...tubular magnesium walker for crippled adults and children, which weighs less than a quart of milk...
...Quantico, Va. last week, the Marine Corps showed off its new Mighty Mite a pint-size cousin of the wartime jeep (40 inches shorter and 1,300 lbs. lighter) The spunky little auto has no muffler (the tubular frame acts as one) and no axles (each wheel is independently sprung), and can plow through knee-deep mud, ford streams, hit 45 m.p.h. on a level highway, climb an 87% grade and be airlifted by helicopter. The Marines have ordered ten Mites powered by 65-h.p. Lycoming air-cooled engines, from Mid-America Research Corp. of Wheatland...
...said yesterday that work is "already past the bulldozer stage." Building of the telescope house is proceeding rapidly at Agassiz Station. Ewen"s own firm is finishing the telescope's electronic receiver, while a Cohasset radar company has completed the tubular aluminum antenna (above...
...moonlit temple courtyard crowded with men in colored turbans, sitting comfortably behind gilded consoles, beating on xylophone-like strips of metal with wooden hammers. In the rear hung three huge, deep-humming brass gongs. At the foot of the temple steps, two men sat and fluttered butterfly fingers against tubular drums. The music of a Balinese gamelan can clang steel-hard or chime gold-soft, Manhattanites discovered -and the rhythm was as exact and exciting as a drum solo by Gene Krupa...