Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself, his generosity, kindness. patience, keenness, humor. Recalled Mrs. Rinehart: "Only Bob himself knows how many writers he has made, nursing them over the bad places, encouraging, cheering, criticizing." Mr. Cobb observed: "Mr. B. Davis is getting pretty brittle," and described how Davis turned his ankle on the houseboat deck, fell, fracturing two bones in the right ankle, tore ligaments and muscular fabric of the left knee...
...distant "Sara,"† like a bee leaving a log, a little thing crept to the bow and took flight, climbing rapidly and straight away over the sea. Another bee followed, then another, another. On the Lexington's flight deck, the concatenation of motors was heightened by one motor opened almost to its limit. Up the clean wood deck, between the broad yellow guide lines, darted the first of the Lexington's little broad-winged, single-seated biplane fighters, light blue below, yellow on top, with thunder-bolting eagles on its sides. Away it shot over the concave precipice...
...week when the creaking old Fabre liner Asia burned to her water line in the Red Sea harbor of Jidda, out of some thousand pious Mecca pilgrims, 112 shrewd Mohammedans who knew a good thing when they saw it, refused absolutely to leave the ship, knelt on the burning deck, died in an agony of expectation. The few Occidental passengers, the crew and the remaining pilgrims were rescued by harbor craft, but the Asia, on which many a U. S. citizen has sailed from Manhattan to the Near East, burned for a total loss...
Empress of Britain. Seated on a workman's hoist at a Glasgow shipyard last week, H. R. H. Princess Mary rose vertically 100 feet in air, was swung onto the deck of the half-completed 40,000 ton Empress of Britain...
...mahogany underbody. She is 130 ft. overall, 86 ft. on the water; she has a canoe-like stern, long, overhanging bow, a longer and squarer keel than the other proposed defenders. L. Francis Herreshoff designed her. Her steel frame came from Pennsylvania, her mahogany from South America, her pine deck and spruce mast from Washington, her black walnut trimmings from Indiana...