In a strictly legal sense, the streamlined plastic pistols they carried were not lethal weapons.
The present automobiles, trains, and aircraft were all very streamlined and marvelous when compared to the horse and buggy, but they were still too limited, too cumbersome and too costly.
Twenty-five feet up from the scoop is a streamlined cylinder, blimp shaped, carrying a small electric pump.
The background was there--not to mention their experience and studies in streamlined design--to reduce resistance, get maximum performance from power plants.
The contrast between it and the sleek, fast, streamlined Navy airship of today is almost as striking as that between wartime planes and automobiles and modern ones.
By combining the Department of Commerce with the Department of Labor and other related agencies, I think we can create a more economical, efficient, and streamlined instrument that will better serve a growing nation.
The Department has successfully combined nearly 150 Federal education programs into a cohesive, streamlined organization that is more responsive to the needs of educators and students.
We've streamlined the Agriculture Department by reducing it by more than 1,200 offices.
Gnome, fitted behind the pilot's seat in the streamlined fuselage, was cooled through louvres.
It was notable for its streamlined body and disc wheels.
In 1911 the curious machine with streamlined "pantalette" chassis, totally enclosed body and internal wing-bracing, was produced for French Military Trials.
This finally developed into the carefully streamlined "shorthorn" with the raised nacelle and a single tail-plane.
It was streamlined as a Terran shark and as long as the tank in which Harris lived.
From the openings at the apexes of their heads, which must have been mouths, they were streamlined in a fashion that made it more natural to picture them swimming like Terran cuttlefish then climbing up and down thick poles.
PART III Professionalization and an Increased Standard of Living Specialization, whether in truck farming, dairying or poultry raising, streamlined the farmer's work and gave him an in-depth body of knowledge in a particular field.
Mechanical separators streamlined this task by allowing the milk to be separated while still warm, using centrifugal action to bring the heavier cream particles to the bottom of the machine.
It eliminated some drudgery, it streamlined and modernized, but it also uprooted traditions and added financial and emotional burdens to the already pressured farmer.
They speeded andstreamlined the twice-daily milkings, efficiently strained and separated the milk while warm.
Time has streamlined and inflated your platitudes.
But before all these romantically streamlined things eventuate there must be a hiatus.
The one wing was a long cloth-covered affair of wood strips and wires--streamlined after a fashion, for it was narrower at the tips than in the center, and thinner at the back edge than at the front edge.
Slender crimson body, silver wing, every inch of herstreamlined to split the wind like an arrow!
It was a slim silver creation, all metal, andstreamlined from engine, through monoplane wing, back to tail.
The longer projectile, being both heavier and more streamlined than round shot of the same caliber, also has a greater striking energy.
I would take in just enough air so that it was neutrally buoyant, and with its streamlined shape, it didn't slow me down enough to notice.
In other words, I had a very long and rather flexible tail, at the end of which was a smoothly streamlined flesh-colored box that followed me around on its own two legs.
It was built that way, of course, so that large objects could be loaded direct into the cargo hold, but it was neither streamlined nor graceful.
They had to be streamlined to pierce the thick, resisting part of the atmosphere.
It was not the streamlined machine its designer had conceived, but it was effective, in some cases, more so than the designer imagined.
Without a word, the three cadets left the Tower building and made their way to the monorail station, where they would catch the streamlined express to Atom City.
Then he gave his ship the gun, and the tiny, streamlined scout teetered, roared, and rose with a scream into the dripping darkness high above.
Under the streamlined plane's speeding body the gnarled, bomb-torn terrain of Nevada hurtled by.
The model locomotive and tender are 2 feet long and are accompanied by a train of six streamlined cars.
West Albany shops of the New York Central, and in December of that year was placed back in service on the Empire State Express with an entirely new streamlinedtrain of specially designed stainless-steel cars.
The payload bay was sealed with a Teflon ring, which was itself secured with a series of streamlined clamps that were bolted from inside, designed for automated control.
Then he noticed the heavy release levers, positioned beneath the Teflon clamps and circling the three sides of the streamlined door.
Literally, it is streamlinedfor comfort and beauty in the modern way.
Its sale is now only slight although we may see a come-back of the Brussels in streamlinedtexture effects.
A gigantic silvery machine rested there, streamlined to perfection, its hull dazzingly beautiful in the sunlight.
From behind a low hill a slim, pointed form emerged, a beautifully streamlined ship, the lines obviously those of a Thessian, the windows streaming light, while the visible ionization about the hull proclaimed its molecular ray screen.
Passing over them, seeming to pass almost through them in this strange perspectiveless view, were the shadowy forms of giant space liners, titanic streamlined hulls.
They were still sinking, and now a number of small marvelously streamlined ships were clustered around the slowly settling giant.
A strange, glistening thing streamlined to the nth degree, every spare corner rounded till the resistance was at the irreducible minimum.
Description: The mink is about as long as an average house cat, but is much more streamlined in appearance.
The shoulders are higher than the posterior, giving the animal a streamlined appearance.
The great clear windows in the nose and the low, streamlined air intake for the generator seemed only to accentuate the graceful lines of the machine.
One of them picked out the descending machine, and it suddenly leaped out of the darkness as a shining, streamlined cylinder, a cylinder with a great halo of blue fire, as the beam of the searchlight set it off from the jet black night.
Each power unit was equipped with long streamlined copper fins lying close to the rounded hull, that they might absorb heat more rapidly.
Its sleek, streamlinedsides spoke of power and speed.
I believe we will be able to accelerate the car rapidly to a speed of several miles a second at very high altitudes, and as we will be able to use a perfectly enclosed streamlined car, we should get tremendous speeds.
A tapering streamlined shape slipped silently across it, and then was gone in the blackness, and the white dwarf resumed its brilliant display.
A tapering, streamlined shape slid shadow-like across the face of an undulating globular cluster, and then was swallowed quickly in the strange gray void of hyper-space.
