Word: floated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allowed him to rest each concrete floor slab on a central support, like a tray on a waiter's fingers. He roofed the building with light copper sheathing, made the centre of gravity low as a ship's. And like a ship, the Imperial was made to float. Instead of sinking deep piers to bedrock, the architect rested his building on hundreds of slender, pointed 8-ft. piles, distributing the weight evenly...
Composer Strauss and his librettist laid their scene in a Hellenic back yard, envisioned livestock rooting about the grave of ax-murdered Agamemnon while his murderers' dying screeches float from backstage over the most malignant of operatic orchestrations. Their frenzied, hagridden Elektra, daughter of the slain Agamemnon and instigator of the ghastly revenge that overtakes his killers, demanded a singer of enormous endurance. Mariette Mazarin, who introduced the part to the U. S. in 1910, fainted while taking her final curtain calls. The late Ernestine Schumann-Heink, powerful Katrinka of opera singers, left the original cast at Dresden because...
...rubbish heaps, lavatories. To establish a presumption of infanticide, it is necessary to show that the child was not born dead. The autopsy surgeon removes the lungs, places them in a basin of water. If the child lived even briefly after birth, his lungs will contain air and will float; if not, they will sink...
...doses of theelin, a sex hormone, and cured them in a few weeks. A few months later Dr. John Huberman of Newark, N. J. and Dr. Howard Harry Israeloff of nearby Irvington, collaborating, gave five children hypodermic injections of amniotin. an extract of the fluids in which unborn children float. They gave a sixth child amniotin by mouth. All six got rid of their gonorrhea in a few months...
...indoor tank was put into operation yesterday for the first time, and the float and most of the motor boats will be taken in tomorrow. As Yale and most of the other colleges will be ending their outdoor seasons this week, the crew men will not be at any disadvantage...