Word: rapid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without infantry, armies cannot win wars; without rifles, infantry cannot fight. The U. S. Army therefore thought hard and long before deciding in 1936 to junk its rugged, battle-tried Springfield rifle and adopt a new, rapid-fire, semi-automatic called the Garand (for Inventor John C. Garand, a civilian who works for the War Department). After nearly five years, the Army last week was still using mostly Springfield rifles, and thinking about Garands. Official excuse for this situation: that the Garand has not yet been supplied to the Army because it is still going through a normal process...
...Garands are supposed to be rapid-fire guns, banging out (from clips of eight cartridges) 26 aimed shots a minute, many more shots if unaimed. Mr. Ness wrote: "When we fired [the Garand] very slowly, loading each cartridge into the chamber by hand, the oil started to bubble out ... in tiny specks after 40 shots to 60 shots fired in 25 to 35 minutes." In brief: fired at speed, the Garand would get so hot no soldier could hold...
...injecting liquids. Hypodermic needles have not been entirely satisfactory. Dr. Gioacchino Failla, physicist of New York City's Memorial Hospital, announced a new method of getting fluids into cancers located near the body surface. The fluid is shot in a tiny, powerful jet from a diamond (to prevent rapid wearing away) orifice two-thousandths of an inch in diameter, at a pressure of 15,000 lb. per sq. in. Such a jet penetrates the skin, enters the flesh and spreads to a depth of nearly an inch...
...spring-inspired students germinates somewhere around Dunster House, sprouts from all directions en route to the Square, where it blooms, is nipped and withers in rapid succession. In the course of this brief life-cycle, a generally noisy world is treated to a lot of essentially peaceful noise for a change. Sundry streets, side-walks, students and Yard Cops receive a generous dosage of nothing worse than a wastebasket full of water; that the streets and sidewalks needed it, is fairly well established. Finally, about sixty Cambridge cops are treated to their favorite out-door sport--there...
Coach Johnny Witherspoon's lacrosse ten are taking their games in rapid fire on their trek to the south. Having just met Stevens Institute yesterday they will meet the Army stickmen today. The West Pointers have an impressive record so far and should prove a strong opponent to the Crimson's also potent team...