Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lock Up the Safe. Actually, the musicians, not Cissy, had done the clutching. To help them out in their first year, she gave them, for a small percentage ("I still have to keep Cissy in ham & eggs"), use of both her Moore Theater and her talents as an impresario, which even her enemies admit are considerable...
...Does he use measurements to paint by? "Oh, no. I use this eye mostly [pointing to his left one] and I hold my head in one spot, like a camera, instead of ducking it around. That may sound a bit rigid, but I think craftsmanship should be uppermost. You build the picture up, very faithfully. The less art you try to put into it the better...
...comfortable, the machine must use 27 electrical circuits whose permutations & combinations offer 390,625 possible ways out of discomfort. The gadget is said by Psychiatrist Ashby to "think" because it quickly chooses the proper way, and soon becomes comfortable again, with all its magnets centered...
With a series of slow-motion pictures, Storer proves that birds use all the aerodynamic tricks that man builds into his airplanes-and a few more besides. A bird's "propellers," explains Storer, are the big feathers at the ends of its wings. They are perfect airfoils with thick leading edges and thin trailing edges. When the bird flaps its wings downward, the "prop feathers" separate, twist to assume the proper "angle of attack," and act like propeller blades. They generate a forward force that pulls the wing forward, and the bird with...
...sheepskin carpet, a short-wave telephone, a gold compact, and a lifetime fountain pen. Nearby was a gunmetal "hardtop" convertible designed for President Wilson and christened the Coup de Ville. Upholstered in pleated gunmetal leather, it has a telephone, pull-out desk and engraved vanity case. ("Not that I use powder," quipped Wilson...