Word: webs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...printing will be done by offset lithography on two high-speed, roll-fed presses which will dry the printing ink instantaneously by speeding the web of paper through infra-red rays. Incidentally, the magazine use of this equipment is such a new development that in a day when no new presses can be built we could not have started this venture if we had not located our second press 2,000 miles away in Detroit-and if our printers had not obtained WPB permission to move the press and other equipment to the Coast by pointing out all the transcontinental...
...platypus amuses most people by its funny name and its funny face (see cut). A very primitive link between mammals and aquatic birds, the platypus is a duckbilled, web-footed, molelike creature that nurses its young. It nests in a burrow in a river bank. The female lays small (¾ in. long), soft-shelled eggs...
...great port of Naples and the great airfields of Foggia. The General's implication: these, more than any other prize, put Anglo-American forces in position for a flank attack on southern France and/or the Balkan Adriatic coast. Presumably from Foggia's web of runways last week, Allied planes thrust an arm over Marshal Tito's troops, hammered the Nazi rail junction at Sofia and dromes near Athens...
There is very little news from the front due to a web of official secrecy which now enshrouds the battle area. Vague rumors have reached this neutral ground about a new instrument of war, known as the "one-armed bandit" which has a deadly effect, especially in knocking off Indians' heads...
...head. Coatless, wearing a white shirt and plaid tie, he leaned back in his swivel chair and waited for some 80 reporters to shuffle into a semicircle before his cluttered desk. The familiar signal flags of weariness were up-an air of fatigued abstraction, a dark web of crow's-feet about his eyes, a deep etching of lines in the loose, sand-grey skin of his face...