Word: ard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there will be a pair of huge dam gates that will reveal, when opened, a great rectangular chasm, 125 ft. wide and running almost the entire length of the craft, into which disabled ships will be pushed at sea. When an ailing battleship is brought into position before the ARD-3, the dock's great bottom tanks will be pumped full of water to sink its keel below that of the battleship...
...best yachtsman the nation ever had for President put out from Pulpit Harbor, Me. early last week with Sons James, John and Franklin Jr. for shipmates, a crew of two. "I haven't the faintest idea where I'm going, except to work to the east'ard," he told newshawks before casting off. "I'm just going to loaf and have a good time...
Accepting a medal inscribed "Dick Byrd, Gallant Gentleman" from Colonel Henry Breckinridge, Rear Admiral Rich ard Evelyn Byrd told 600 banqueters in Manhattan his future plans. Recalling the six months when he "lay on the edge of life" alone in Antarctic Advance Base, the greying explorer read from the diary he kept there: " 'From here the great folly of all follies is the amazing attitude of civilized nations toward each other. . . . If this attitude is not changed, I don't see how our civilization, as we know it, will survive. ... I feel this so keenly that...
...trade as "moly." Little use was found for the metal until the end of the 19th Century, when it was tried as an alloy for tool steels. Sulphur in the moly compounds then available un did what good the metal contributed, with the result that tungsten became the stand ard steel hardener. Not until the War, when it was employed in guns, motors, light armor plate, did moly impress steel makers...
...examination which would fairly test both types of students. This for many instances, in a sacrifice of the interests of the honor candidate. The examination under the present system must very with different subjects. Yet it seems very doubtful whether the en general examination can set as high stand. ard for honor work as the Tripos in England as long as it has to be prepared for the mediocre student...