Word: whirling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the first history of the sport was published: Roller Skating Through the Years by Brooklyn rink-owner Morris Traub (William-Frederick Press, $1). It captured the nostalgic whirl and clatter of skates from the days of Joseph Merlin to those of Western Union...
North from Florida in a gritty whirl of orange peels and wax paper rattled a train of ancient, ill-assorted day coaches last week-the first "relief train" hauling stranded escapists home. Its faded red & green cars got to Manhattan five hours late, released some 500 battered passengers, and went back empty to haul another load away. Next day the second of the two extra coach trains allowed by ODT for the Great Evacuation arrived three hours late. The sordid shuttling will go on; by midsummer, said ODT, all the suntanned refugees may get home...
...McGonegal, of North Dakota, who had known only prairies, horses, steam engines and a whirl through training camps, went to France. He arrived in the Toul sector on Jan. 19, 1918, where his outfit relieved some Moroccan soldiers near Beaumont. On a clear day the Americans could see the city of Metz. They said to each other that sooner or later they'd knock the damn place down...
...WHIRL-Sydney S. Baron-Lowell Publishing...
...future, jet propulsion undoubtedly has dazzling possibilities of speed, lightness and fuel economy. One problem a propellerless plane solves automatically is that of supersonic speeds at propeller tips; engineers have discovered that a propeller encounters "compressibility burble" and loses its effect on the air when the blade tips whirl at a speed approaching that of sound, about 750 m.p.h. at sea level...