Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole structure is strong enough to resist the mightiest earthquake ever known. If the biggest of battleships hit one of the main piers at full speed, the bridge would only quiver, the ship would be telescoped. The world's greatest and most costly over-water roadway has two decks, no pedestrian walks. The bottom deck for trucks and trains will not be completed until 1938. Top deck has six lanes, will permit 10,000,000 cars to cross annually. Experts predict that tolls will amortize the bridge's cost in 20 years. Drivers may hit 45 m.p.h...
Leverett House recently inaugurated a deck tennis court on the flat roof of the Dining Room. Work on the project has been in progress for some time; with its completion last week, Leverett became the possessor of the only deck tennis court in the College...
...things were not going much better for the Reds. From the grimy deck of the Rebel destroyer Velasco, came one of the most exciting rolls of film yet to be taken in Spain's civil war. Weeks ago, off the Galician fishing town of El Ferrol, the Velasco encountered the Loyalist submarine B6. A few lucky shots and the submarine was flooded. She began to sink by the stern. On deck a Rebel seaman snapped away industriously with his camera while the Loyalist crew huddled abaft the conning tower, while an overloaded lifeboat was filled with survivors, while...
...private deck tennis court will soon adorn the area adjoining Housemaster Kenneth Murdoch's living quarters...
...administered at Thornton's direction, to a onetime friend of his who "failed to salute the War Dead" and was tattled on by a toady. An officer who might have intervened leaves the room with the admonition: "Be careful, fellows." The victim is then tied to a double-deck bed, burned with a cigarette, given 18 lashes with a whip, hospitalized. The outraged medical officer demands that Thornton be expelled, threatens to resign and expose the school if he is not. In the course of his tirade it appears that because the school heads wink at the manly dissipations...