Word: decks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sepia supplements of the Sunday papers. A beamy, 35-foot Navy cutter was moving steadily by, showing neither smoke nor sail and emitting a "put-put-put" altogether too faint to be coming from a gasoline motor proportionate to the craft's size. Men on the deck were observing a smokeless stack that rose amidships, a cylinder 3½ feet in diameter and 9½ feet high. The stack was revolving. The vessel was a U. S. rotorship-the first...
...afternoon voyage down the Potomac aboard the Mayflower, Calvin Coolidge went past M. Vernon and back. His guests : news correspondents and photographers, Collie Rob Roy. Pencils and cameras were not allowed. Luncheon was served on deck...
...Edmond Hoyle as chief U. S. oracle on games of chance, furnishes convincing statistics. If you play poker, you may recognize yourself. If you cannot bear the game, it is at least valuable to know that there are 2,598,960 poker hands to an honest 52-card deck; that a royal straight flush can occur but once in 649,746 hands; that the parent stem of Poker is that ancient Persian pastime, As Nas. With the book come rules, advice against Greeks*, a set of chips...
...hour and climbed more than 5,000 ft. in ten minutes. Fully loaded, the plane weighs 5,200 lb., and carries a crew of four men. With its inverted engine giving the pilot clear vision ahead; its retractible gear allowing the plane to alight on ship deck, on land, on sea, or to roll up a beach under its own power; with its photographic, wireless and heating arrangements, the Loening is the last word in airplane construction...
...reporters, well-pleased, withdrew. As the door clicked behind them, the young man leaped from his couch, began hurriedly to dress. Then he skulked to the deck and vanished down the gangplank. He, nameless practical joker, was an impostor. The real George Gershwin was in the smoking-room...