Word: float
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boarding her craft upstream at the Cambridge Club, the Bunnies' new coxswain, Patty David of Dallas, successfully piloted her charges, all of them hanging at the catch, past a cheering Weld Boathouse float and disappeared downstream in the direction of Peter Black's Chinese Junk...
Then the flares began to float down-long graceful chain flares, star flares, flaming onions, and Molotov chandeliers, which ripple down in long ribbons of fire. From all directions the planes began to dive-bomb, lower than usual, and more than usual. This, the citizenry suddenly realized, was a return visit for the big fire raid the R.A.F. had bestowed on Berlin's Unter den Linden the week before; this would...
Favorite shipbuilding technique of the Norsemen was to dam the water out of a fjord, build the ship on the ground, float her off by breaking the dam and letting the sea back in. Last week Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Corp. (South Portland, Me.) was using this old Viking trick and Maine's nine-foot tides to speed construction on 30 $1,600,000 pre-fabricated freighters for Britain. Having no fjords, Todd-Bath steam-shoveled a basin about five feet below water. At launching time (around May 1) the incoming tide bubbling through opened gates will gently float...
...elimination of the strain on boat and builder during the few seconds in launching when the stern rests in the water, the bow rests on the ways, but nothing supports the waist. Before 1941's end Todd-Bath will have seven basins, some large enough to nurse and float three ships at once...
...which they were working broke loose and slowly swirled downstream with its entourage of embryo Eilzas. Heartened by Sunday's warmth, Arthur, who drives the University launch, and Carl, pilot of the Harvey Love Freshman special, set out to saw a space in which to set down, the float stages yesterday morning...