Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steel framework contractors had first built a fibreboard shell, so that workmen, sheltered inside, could lay brick and pour concrete through winter weather. Last week the building, almost a fifth of a mile long, was hatching, pink and raw, out of its cocoon. By June, Pratt & Whitney double Wasp engines should be rolling...
Sister of the Yorktown and Enterprise, smaller than the 33,000-ton Saratoga and Lexington, bigger than the Ranger and Wasp, Hornet is one of five carriers ordered before the U. S. decided on a two-ocean Navy. The other four (Kearsarge, Essex, Bon Homme Richard and Intrepid) are on the way. After them will come seven more, all ordered (and all under construction). Barring a war, in 1945-46 the U. S. will have 18 carriers. If Britain should fall this spring and surrender its fleet intact to Germany, the U. S. Navy's carrier equipment would...
...maidservant for the lacing job, and if she was stout the two helpers had to use a wooden crank. Ribs of these unfortunates were often so compressed that they overlapped, bringing on lung trouble, hemorrhages, other internal disorders. Two-thirds of hospitals' emergency calls were for wasp-waisted women who had fainted in public places...
Take something immensely more complex than an electron: a living cell. When the cell is "ready" to divide, the centrosome separates and moves to opposite sides, the chromosomes line up in the middle and then split evenly; then some thing nips in the sides of the cell to a wasp-waisted constriction, and finally the cell divides into two healthy duplicates of its original self. Biologists have the devil's own time trying to explain this mysterious, well-drilled maneuver. In Strömberg's view, it is initiated and controlled by an "immaterial wave of organization." Though...