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There "she lived in such style as to eclipse her 'neighbor George' (the King) in St. James's, across the way." There she died in 1744, aged 85, as her physicians attempted to "blister" her, vowing "I won't be blistered...
Sleeked with sandpaper and rubbed down until not so much as a varnish blister marred its swift stream lines, a U. S. seaplane took off at the Bayshore aerodrome near Baltimore, slithered like a curving bullet round the seven laps of the 50 meter Schneider Trophy course. "Click!" went the timing instruments. Officials figured for a moment-announced that Lieut. Jame Doolittle had covered the course at an average speed of 232,573 miles per hour, which was 43,753 miles an hour faster than the previous (unofficial) world record for seaplanes set at Bayshore a year...
...Alterations on the six older capital ships New York, Texas, Florida, Wyoming, Utah, Arkansas to blister* them as protection against submarine attack, to strengthen their deck armor against aircraft bombs and plunging fire, to replace their worn-out boilers with modern oil-burning equipment. Total cost...
...Blister" or "Bulge" is a device resorted to in remodeling older ships to protect them from torpedo, mine or bomb explosions alongside. In new ships many watertight bulkheads keep the ship afloat in such a case. In older ships, by building a sort of outer hull (the "blister" or "bulge") outside the regular hull, a similar protection is achieved...
...That afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, looking grave, went to the Walter Reed Hospital. In one of the rooms lay Calvin Coolidge, Jr., 16, their youngest son, stricken suddenly with virulent septic poisoning that had settled in the tibia of his right leg as the result of a tennis blister. Dr. John B. Deaver, of Philadelphia, operated, but by evening it was known that the patient's condition was extremely serious...