Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down. The winds did not deter a hefty, partially crippled, 34-year-old Belgian mining machine manufacturer named Fernand du Moulin. Around 10 o'clock one night last week Fernand left a champagne party given by his wife, anointed himself with grease and took to the choppy waters off France's Cap Gris Nez. He struck out with a powerful breast stroke, stopping now & then to tread water and consume 20 fortifying pints of soup and coffee doled out by a friend in a fishing boat. En route, carrier pigeons released by the escort winged their way back...
...limpet and the American whelk tingle, which bore through the shells and eat the young oysters. The whelks and limpets stowed away when the British imported* young U.S. oysters to fatten in British oyster beds. The U.S. oysters fatten fast, but do not multiply; they find the British coastal waters too cold for spawning. The British government is now raising special oysters at Conway, in Wales, and suspends cement boxes in the water to give the larvae a chance to settle out of reach of the whelk tingles and the slipper limpets lurking below...
With "Norzon," an artificial suede fabric, the Behr-Manning Co. of Troy, N.Y. hit the jackpot. Because Norzon wears as well as real suede and can be washed with soap & water, shoemakers were quick to use it. In 2^ years they have put Norzon into an estimated 35 million pairs of shoes. But like many another company with something good to sell, Behr-Manning has been plagued by cheap imitations and complaints when the imitations did not hold...
...blank-verse comedy, Playwright Eliot appeared in a new role: the harried craftsman who jots notes in the balcony while the actor runs through the dress rehearsal. For four weeks in Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theater, Eliot had watched rehearsals, chatted with the actors over gin an water, and penciled his unpublished script with cuts and corrections...
...become the first man to scale the 23,930-ft. peak of Chomolhari in the Himalayas, was already a famed Arctic explorer), because he had a sense of humor, and because he kept himself busy plaguing the Japs. Writes Chapman: "[The jungle] provides any amount of fresh water, and unlimited cover for friend as well as foe . . . It is the attitude of mind that determines whether you go under or survive . . . The jungle itself is neutral...