Word: beams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only the fact that a substantial cross-beam extends across the open top of the elevator saved the students from death...
...Discovered that New York's neanderthalic Representative Sol Bloom is the man who drops shiny new pennies about the Capitol steps for people to find-an inexpensive philanthropy that makes even dourpuss finders beam, according to Mr. Bloom...
Staten Island is a broad, semi-rusticky borough (Richmond) in New York Harbor, 57 square miles of suburb off the starboard beam of the Statue of Liberty. It is dotted with Dutch names like New Dorp, Kill van Kull, factories, and about 100 real farms. At least one of its 160,000 residents is nationally famed. He is hoary, old Poet Edwin Markham (The Man with the Hoe, Lincoln, the Man of the People), now an enfeebled, house-ridden codger...
...Deutschland and her sisters have an extraordinary beam of 118 ft.-about 25 ft. wider than the biggest liners afloat. This indicates enormous armor protection and underwater bulkheading. The German ships mount eight 15-inch guns to the new British ships' ten 14-inchers. Even if they are not, en masse, the British ships' equal, they will constitute a threat which may force the British to base their battlefleet, not at Belfast as at present, but again at Scapa Flow, where Nazi airplanes and submarines can snipe at them more handily...
...Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace. Carrying bouquets given them by President and Mrs. Roosevelt, the debutantes for two straight hours hand-shook Washington socialites, Government wigs and hangers-on. Also reigning in another section of the hotel drawing room were the fathers, who did not cease to beam all afternoon. Gurgled Washington Post Society Pundit Hope Ridings Miller: "More men-young and older-than one usually sees at afternoon parties were on hand for the pleasant fete, which was accented by lively music from an orchestra that flourished on one side of the ballroom, and a gay company that...