Word: sliver
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Captain Walker knew that bullets account for less than 40% of battle casualties, that a cigaret case, a pocket Bible, a packet of love letters will sometimes stop a metal sliver. He concluded that a curved steel plate, easily slipped into a special pocket of a gas-mask container, would protect most of a man's precious lights...