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Word: basketwork (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Largest to date was the Experimenter, a craft in which house carpenters as well as boat builders had collaborated. Her four keels were laid on the principle of a catamaran. On her two lofty basketwork masts, which looked like Eiffel Towers, the resourceful professor planned to rig square sails which would unfurl, furl at the touch of a button. The freeze-up in the valley had made him rush his plans, and under bare baskets the Experimenter buzzed off among the gathering ice-cakes, pushed by her twin Diesel engines. It was New Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Pitkin on Ice | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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