Word: docked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week preparatory labors were almost done. Preparations consisted of building at Akron the largest airship factory and dock in the world. Its floor is a vast concrete spread of 364,000 square feet (more than 8 acres), the largest single uninterrupted floor area yet built. Over this is the dock structure, a cavernous semi-paraboloid building 211 ft. high, 1,175 ft. long. From the high perspective of a flying machine it looks like a peanut or silkworm cocoon. Although the dock was not entirely covered last week, 40,000 people could congregate under the finished portion to watch...
...exemplary trial. The Arab prisoner would be grilled by an Arab prosecutor. There were plenty of prosecution witnesses, already lamenting and smiting their breasts in the corridor. With an easy sauntering stride and a smile of contempt for the witnesses Prisoner Sheik Taleb Maraka entered, was escorted to the dock by an armed policeman...
...Never!" shouted the Sheik, smacking his fist on the dock. "Never in all my life have I led or addressed a crowd. ... I did not even learn of what happened until I read the police reports...
...Provincetown, Mass., the Mary A., schooner, sailed away on a fishing trip. Soon she hove back in sight, drifted near her dock while a sailor heaved a black cat over the side. Then, rid of the omen, she sailed away again...
...robbed her, left her in agony by the roadside. Into Albi's courtroom walked Mme. Rolland last week, the hideous burns on her face half-hidden by a bandage. "You thought that you would blind me!" she cried pointing an accusing finger at the "acid bandits" in the dock. "Thank God, I have still one eye left with which to weep-and to identify...