Word: cruse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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America's outstanding scholars, actuated by a laudable desire to impart their knowledge, rather than to cash in on it, frequently lecture for $100. CRUSE CARRIEL...
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...group of 18, at Pearl Harbor, having a capacity of 150,000 barrels each, were the biggest tanks in the world. One of them was half filled. The other 17 were dry as the widow's cruse, were rapidly deteriorating into a useless mass of rust. Admiral McDonald, Commandant of the Pearl Harbor Naval District, admitted that corrosion had developed in at least one case to the depth of 3/16...