Word: fabricate
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...great ship was winding up the St. Lawrence valley toward Quebec when fabric covering her port stabilizer finally yielded to the whipping of the wind and tore loose-a mishap similar to that which befell the Graf Zeppelin on her first Atlantic flight. Without parachutes, members of the R-100's crew crawled precariously about the tattered fin, made makeshift repairs...
...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...
...minds of the University at large that the wages of its employees, while legally sufficient, are certainly below any altruistic or even humanitarian scale. The issue in the mind of the CRIMSON is whether there is any moral good in selecting one particular instance from the entire fabric of the wage question, and magnifying it to a position of paramount importance; whether the questionable publicity given to this particular part, dwarfing the whole out of all proportion, has, in an ultimate analysis, done any good. It is impossible to minimize the harm...
...parachute is a hollow hemisphere of strong, light silk or cotton, diameter varying from 22 ft. to 28 ft., with shroud lines running from the rim of the fabric to a harness worn around the body of the jumper. The parachute idea is credited to Leonardo da Vinci, mathematician and scientist as well as painter and sculptor, in 1495 (in his tome Codex Atlanticus...
Died. Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val, 64, secretary of the Supreme Congregation of the Holy Office, Prefect of the Congregation of the Reverend Fabric of St. Peter's, Archpriest of the Vatican Basilica, famed (1903-14) as Papal Secretary of State; of heart failure after an appendectomy; in Rome. His death leaves 28 Italian, 29 non-Italian Cardinals. He was born in London where his father (later to be Spanish Ambassador to the Holy See) was attached to the Spanish Legation. On his Protestant mother's side he was of English descent, but, true son of his father...