Word: whirling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life. I had lots to unlearn about music.") He soon unlearned enough to collect six Spanish musicians and book himself as a relief band in Los Angeles' gaudy Cocoanut Grove. Bashful couples were afraid of his Latin rhythms, so he hired a half-dozen tango experts to whirl unescorted ladies around the floor ("If women learned, their boy friends naturally had to do something about...
...contain slightly more chromatin (chromosome material), it must be slightly heavier. The problem, therefore, is to separate "biological isotopes." Harvey, citing a centrifuge method which has separated the light and heavy parts of sea urchins' eggs, thinks it can be done. His proposal: use a special centrifuge to whirl the sperm; the lighter male-producing sperm will rise to the top, can be skimmed off and planted by artificial insemination...
...families have disappeared, although there are still Crockers and a sprinkling of Sutros and Spreckels around. The exclusive and monstrous Pacific Union Club, once the home of Bonanza King James Flood, is still a rendezvous of the wealthy, but Nob Hill is no longer the center of the social whirl. The center now is the Burlingame Country Club, outside of town...
Irrepressible House of Commons Leader Herbert Morrison, wearing an enormous pink rose in bis lapel, best expressed the jubilant, confident mood of the conference. His somber warnings of a future U.S. business slump that might drag the world into depression did not keep him from enjoying the social whirl. He danced the Scottish reel with whoops and jigs, nursed a couple of small Scotches through evenings of gay chatter. "A regular scalawag is Herbert," grinned one delegate...
...Army wife, Rhoda Wenger had learned to live like a gypsy: for four years she had followed her husband, Corporal Leland Wenger, from one camp to another. Last winter, to give her a change of scene, he decided to take her to New York for a whirl. En route, their car crashed into a truck...