Word: float
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...floor stood a "float": a block of stone with a handle on it, that was used to smooth stonework or stucco. Archaeologist Lehmann likes to think that the float was in use when Emperor Theodosius' edict (and probably the Emperor's soldiers) arrived in the sacred valley, and that it has remained there ever since the day the Great Gods died...
...survive their first hazards, they will have plenty of other things to worry about. Fog would envelop the cabin after the slightest perspiration on the part of the passengers. Their hair would stand on end, their clothes would balloon away from their bodies, and anything not nailed down would float aimlessly about the ship's interior. The space ship and its passengers would be bombarded by dangerous solar X rays and cosmic rays, would run the risk of colliding with meteorites plunging across the interplanetary course...
After 3^ years and more than 3,200 pages of court testimony, Henry J. Kaiser finally laid an old enemy low. He won his breach of contract suit against Otis & Co., Financier Cyrus Eaton's Cleveland underwriting firm. In 1948, Otis & Co. signed up to help float 675,000 shares of Kaiser-Frazer stock at $11.50 a share; under the contract, the underwriters could bail out if anyone should try to block the stock issue in court. At the last minute Eaton bailed out, using as an excuse a suit against K-F to prevent the stock issue...
...second later it plunged into the sea and exploded in a great sheet of jagged white fire. Flaming debris smoked and crackled on the black water. While the emergency team went to work, the carrier continued on its course. There was no confusion. From amidships, men threw float lights overboard as the still-blazing crust of the crashed Corsair slid past. On the bridge, Captain William Gallery, the Princeton's commander, swore stoutly...
...changes were wholly experimental. Bolles would try a combination, have it row about 40 strokes and then rowing it back to the float to try a new one. This afternoon he will probably pick the combination he intends to use against Cornell Saturday...