Word: vente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...designers claim that the heater will cost much less and be cheaper to run than other automatic furnaces now on the market.* It needs only a small vent (instead of a full-size chimney), can be installed virtually anywhere in the house...
...Women can endure noise as well as men. One woman at Lockheed is happy running a speed hammer, though speed hammers are so noisy that they "have to be enclosed in a soundproof room to pre vent their disturbing the drop-hammer operators...
...Californian, abstainer, feminist, movie producer, violinist, physical culturist, antiFascist, antiCommunist; friend of Jack London, Theodore Roosevelt and Albert Einstein; one of the most prolific U.S. authors (67 books, 500 pamphlets); prohibitionist son of a bibulous father and twice-married critic of American marital habits, last week gave book-length vent to his latest enthusiasm: Franklin Roosevelt...
...went to the museums," he said, "as I went to brothels-but I never Vent upstairs.' " Vlaminck painted at first, with no thought of exhibiting his work. "To be a painter," he once said, "is not a business, any more than to be an anarchist, lover, racer, dreamer, or prizefighter...
...Richard C. Gill brought back a big supply of curare from the jungles, hoping it would help spastic paralysis (TIME, July 22, 1940). It was not much help, because its effects are transient. But doctors soon began to use curare to pre vent bone breaking in metrazol shock treatments for insanity...