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Less Chichi. Nonetheless, most of the chichi left in shoes is in ersatz materials-a red fabric rose or composition cherries at the toe of a plain leather pump, multicolored raffia beach sandals, bright wooden clogs, etc. The only frivolous style note in 1944 women's shoes is the high ankle strap (see cut, p. 82). The real style is the "classic" day shoe that can go anywhere and keep going...
...year or so ago the goodtime Charlies were hiking to the Top of the Mark on Nob Hill or streaking for the Pump Room in Chicago or screaming for cracked ice in the Adolphus in Dallas, but now there is all the trouble and hurrah anyone could ask for in Times Square and Madison Avenue. Manhattan is once more America's play town de luxe...
...kill any dog or man that ever trailed him. But the big cats rarely learn. While the dogs are being tied up so that the cougar will not crush them in his death fall, their frenzied barking keeps the beautiful, snarling beast from springing. Some hunters have had to pump as many as 20 bullets into the vicious animal before he fell...
Morse's group solved this problem by making large, high-powered versions of a diffusion pump invented by General Electric's Physicist Irving Langmuir. The diffusion pump works by blowing a strong jet of mercury or oil vapor into the neck of the vessel to be emptied. The vapor stream traps air molecules and sweeps them out through a series of locks. With this equipment, Morse got down to a working vacuum of one micron (a thousandth of a millimeter...
...last year's crews have rowed through the winter in Newell Tank. Haines does not believe that he will be able to circulate the water in the tank, as has been customary at the end of past winter seasons, because of a lack of gasoline to operate the pump engine...