Word: floated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pictures showing His Majesty beating an Orangeman's drum when Prince of Wales, were next burned at Belfast amid Irish jeers. Finally through Belfast streets rumbled a float on which an effigy of Irish Free State President Eamon de Valera dressed as a nurse attended a baby carriage in which sat an effigy of King Edward sucking a bottle of liquid labeled "DOPE...
...reminds me of the beautiful Russian Crimea," Comrade Troyanovsky told Bay Ridgers. "It reminds me," cried Minister Youssef, "of Rås el-Barr beach in Egypt at the mouth of the Nile. The shallow water suits me because I don't swim, although I like to float. Don't call me 'Excellency' or use my title 'Bey.' Just call me Mr. Youssef." Bay Ridgers soon discovered that Ambassador Troyanovsky serves tea and tinfoil wrapped Soviet candies to almost any caller, that Minister Youssef, although a teetotaler, is good for a Scotch and soda...
...means of this big contraption he has proved many bacteriologic things which others have surmised-e. g., that germs actually float in air; that sunlight and artificial sunlight kill floating germs...
...looked at from the point of view of a Harvard which has an active responsibility in turning men into the world who are fitted to take their places in a selected profession, it is criminally wrong to let drifters float out unprepared. There is certainly no doubt that there are many such men graduating from Harvard every year, with the stamp of an A.B. after their names. Eventually, some solution must be found for their problem. For now it is the duty of the University to make every effort possible to inspire these men to study by supplying them with...
...moment engaged in filling up the hole made in searching for the well, making connections with the city water system, and putting in a cement platform at the bottom of the spring. On this platform will sit an iron tank filled out of the city mains on a float system. From the tank water will be taken by a wooden pump, a replica of the old one. Pieces for this were purchased in various parts of New Hampshire, and the average age of the new water lifter should be 20 years...