Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...designated circa 1889) but of its 200,000 small-town citizens, its volunteer fire brigade, its lawless Five Points where "leather-hats" (police) never dared venture, its daring real-estate ventures into the open farming country of East 52nd Street. Author Komroff lugs in few historical buried treasures to deck his dime museum. One of them: that the original Tombs prison was so called "because its plan & architecture were inspired by a picture in a popular book of the time called Stevens' Travels. The author of the book was John L. Stevens, Esq. of Hoboken...
Luxuriously outfitted, the Manhattan boasts many an unusual feature on its eight decks. Among them: a full-size tennis court, twelve sunlit dog kennels on deck, all fresh water baths and showers, conditioned air in all cabins and public rooms, no berths on the ship, beds only. Competing with European cabin-class liners, the minimum first-cabin rate for the voyage to England...
...mistress instead of his wife. Though Boles is selfish and niggardly, she rejects an old sweetheart who offers her position and wealth. The young banker becomes a big banker, supported by his mistress' advice. Going to Europe on a Reparations commission, he takes his mistress on one deck, his wife & children on another. One of the children attempts to pay off the mistress. Boles arrives in time to realize that her small linger is worth more to him than children, wife, fortune and career. He says: "She has taken only that part of me which none of you has seemed...
Captain Turner "almost busted a boiler," steamed up the river at 20 m. p. h. People writhed on the deck, lay panting below, gasping, retching, vomiting. Captain Turner steered close to the dock at Alexandria, six miles from Washington, shouted his news as he went by. Alexandrians called the Washington police. Every ambulance in the city, fire trucks, patrol wagons, taxicabs and private cars rushed to the wharf. The Charles Macalester steamed in, her decks packed with sick, prostrate picnickers. Children wailed, women sobbed. A woman on the dock became hysterical, had to be led away. Stretcher bearers, walking carefully...
...high campus building long-jawed, slow-spoken Professor Jensen has been taking photographs of lightning flashes for seven years using a large-size news camera with an extra large lens. For the past two years, with his son's help, he has also been using an insulated metal deck connected with a galvanometer and the ground to measure the nature of the Earth charge after a lightning flash. Jensen's findings have jolted Simpson's theory. He has showed that the lacy branching sometimes points away from the negative point. Offering no new theory, Jensen suggests that Simpson's theories...