Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ulen's Varsity swimmers turned the pressure on last night against a mediocre M.I.T. team and the Boiler-makers were left hanging on the ropes gasping for breath. The final score was 52 to 23 in favor of Harvard, and the beating could have been worse had not Ulen taken mercy on the Techmen towards the end of the meet...
...destroyer was swinging hard to port at the time of the hit. Ensign Lyman heard a terrible roar as the warhead bit through the Kearny's armor. The explosion killed seven men stationed in the forward boiler room on the steaming watch. Its force ripped up through the deck, wrecked the starboard wing of the bridge, knocked the forward stack back and broke the siren cord so that its shrill yowl could not be shut off. Four others disappeared, probably blown overboard...
...Shreve installed the "incredible engines" in the "unbelievable hull," and the President steamed out of Wheel ing. At Marietta, the steamboat blew up. Patiently Shreve buried the eight casualties, repaired his boiler, continued down stream...
...driftwood called the Great Raft- "so solid in places that a man could ride across it on horseback. Except for the Raft, the Red River would be navigable for a thousand miles." But Henry Shreve and his snag boat, amid bitter wrangling, red tape, lack of money, deaths from boiler explosions and cholera, cleared the Great Raft and opened the Red River...
...skirted precipices 1,000 feet above the river, labored across the sagebrush acres of the sun-drenched plateau, climbed 9,000 feet in the air, and finally shot down into whitewashed Antonito, lived on to nurture some fabulous tales: of how they had to hinge the engine's boiler in the middle to get it around the curves; of how the conductor in the caboose bummed chewing tobacco from the engineer in his cab as the little train coiled back on itself on hairpin turns; of how buffalo charged the pint-sized engines ; of how the train rolled down...