Word: girders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgium's defense was in final readiness, and correspondents were shown that country's new defense against tanks: mobile, steel-girder "gates" on rollers, which can be pushed across country, two men to a gate, or dragged in long lines by tractors. Chained together, the gates form a resilient wall which impedes tanks butting it yet is not easily broken by shellfire. Tanks slowed down by the bending wall would make easy targets for defensive fire. Belgium was said to have enough such gates for a continuous wall all along her German frontier...
...plunged bumping across the steel bridge, sideswiping telegraph poles, coming at last to a miraculous halt on the other side. But to all but four of the remaining cars came disaster. Six jumped the bridge, plunged 15 feet to the drying riverbed. One car was skewered by a steel girder. Bodies and bits of bodies blotted the wreckage...
...Over the top window of Manhattan's tallest building hover perpetually two genuine angels, standing guard over a soul imprisoned in a steel girder...
...judge who presided at the trial. But I. R. A. terror, like poison ivy, breaks out in strange places. Late that night, motorists and pedestrians going sleepily home over Hammersmith Bridge, the farthest up-Thames within London, were rocked by a sudden Boom! Suspension chains snapped, a support-girder sagged, windows 100 yards away on the north bank crashed to the street. Bam! In mid-bridge another blast shook the 52-year-old structure from tower to tower. The whole span drooped a foot below its usual level...
Wassermann, having bandaged the leg stump, handed the man to observers on the roof of the hotel, inched off the narrow girder, took his patient to City Hospital. There a surgeon re-amputated Marion Carey's left stump above the knee so that he may wear an artificial leg with comfort...