Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ride those little ponies of the sea takes strength, wisdom and the ability to make quick decisions. A.B.C. commanded the Scorpion for seven years, and gave her sting. Once in the Aegean he took her right into the mouth of an enemy harbor with bridge defenses rigged, the upper deck clear of men, and seamen with rifles manning the bridge loopholes and mess-deck scuttles; and he conducted a rifle action against land troops at a range of 50 yards...
Leeches for Fighters. In his saddened shop, a remodeled brownstone house on upper Lexington Avenue, twelve expert elixir and pill makers kept busy filling a stream of prescriptions which has now passed the 1,280,000 mark. Unlike most modern drugstores, J. Leon Lascoff & Son sells nothing but chemicals, prescriptions, biologicals and a few special cosmetics. Within these limits, Lascoff's pride is to keep everything ("if we don't have it, nobody does")-e.g., a large, dignified, white porcelain jar of leeches, a commodity still in some demand for pugilists' shiners, stands just inside the door...
...Upper-Air Mirror. Physicist Heck's nested cones have vast potentialities for supplementing planes and meteorological balloons for getting upper-air readings for accurate weather forecasting...
...thermometer can tell within half an hour after sunset how cold it will be by morning. It draws a running picture of the clouds that pass overhead, records breaks and thickenings. It also indicates upper-air humidity, precursor of cloud patches the next...
Thereafter, except for more fanfare in the way of a magnificently jumbled United Nations pageant, the show offered many thrills but no surprises. Its starred newcomer is fragile Lalage who, hanging by an arm to a rope, flapjacks herself an incredible number of times in the upper air. With a two-cycle, five-man act, the perennial Wallendas outdo their past achievements on the high wire. As of yore, The Flying Councellos leap, Elly Ardelty stands on her head on the flying trapeze, Massi-milliano Truzzi juggles flaming torches. Tigers walk treadmills, horses curvet superbly and Harry Rittely sits atop...