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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...
...Gone With the Wind had been shot. A flat representing the Atlanta warehouse district was constructed in front of the old sets. In the light of the dying flames Myron Selznick, Hollywood's No. 1 agent, stepped over to his brother. With him was his British client, wasp-waisted, tilt-browed, hazel-eyed Cinemactress Vivien Leigh (pronounced Lee), who had slipped into Hollywood allegedly to see Laurence Olivier. Said Myron Selznick to David Selznick: "Dave, I want you to meet Scarlett O'Hara...
...Ducal Army (1,000 men, plus 350 recruits and 200 gendarmes) paraded in review in its new khaki uniforms, with helmets like the old Austrian Army. Said its commander: "This is quite a change from our old army in lollipop uniforms." The pre-World War uniform was sky-blue, wasp-waisted, gold-buttoned, with gold band on a high-crowned pillbox...