Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lost their holds and fell. I saw them drop off, but I didn't see them hit the ground. I wouldn't let myself look. I heard them hit though-I couldn't help that. It sounded like a bucket of water poured out on the deck. You know how that is—:just a splash...
...unofficial commotion (TIME, March 28). Last week it gave promise of becoming Sydney's nightmare. Large cracks appeared in the roadway, running both transversely and longitudinally. The bridge is paved with a coke compound. The compound contains sulphur. Engineers examining the paving, which was laid on a steel deck, found that the sulphur is setting up a chemical reaction which, if unchecked, must cause the steel deck rapidly to corrode...
...Buck theory: that all the leopards in the Malay Peninsula will be black in a few hundred years. One of his captives he named Spitfire II because of its likeness to another black leopard that had once removed a piece of the Buck thumb. Spitfire was caged on the deck of a Chinese-manned boat bound for Singapore. Nearby sat a Chinese butcher sharpening a knife. The butcher plunged his knife into a pig's throat, Spitfire smelled blood, burst from his cage, leapt over the side. Beastcatcher Buck felt his hair-roots tingle as a shark...
When Major Sands, from the poop deck of the trading-ship Centaur, just under way from Antigua to England, sees the 40-gun Black Swan sidling up, he trembles for himself and for his charge. He is escorting back to England lovely Priscilla. daughter and heiress of Antigua's onetime governor, the late Sir John Harradine. The Centaur's captain maneuvers his ship like a fool and the only other passenger, de Bernis, is known to have been a buccaneer...
...opening of his new building in Manhattan, "Sixty Wall Tower" (at No. 70 Pine Street). The building cost $7,500,000, stands on land of the same value. Its 67 stories and 950-ft. height rank it as Manhattan's third tallest. Notable innovation in it are double-deck elevators, one compartment of which stops at even floors, the other at odd floors...