Word: gunsight
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...classes from border ruffian to Boston Brahmin." Pastoral simplicities like Seldom Seen, Possum Glory, Chicken Bristle, Hog Eye, Ticklenaked, Pokamoonshine, Stop-theJade, Bug Tussel and Pennsylvania's neighboring Intercourse and Fertility are as native and natural as those that recall forgotten troubles and tragedies-Cape Fear, Cape Foulweather, Gunsight Hills, Broken Bow, Massacre Lake, Deadman Creek. "The other Tokyo." World War II has shown that local pride-of-name can now stand up to anything. Except for Germania and Swastika, not a single U.S. town has shed its German name. All four Tokyos have survived, showing, says Author Stewart...
...rainbow, as every schoolboy knows, is formed by the refraction (bending) of sunlight by raindrops. Optical engineers have known for some time that an artificial rainbow can be produced by passing light through certain crystals. An ingenious wartime application of this phenomenon is a rainbow gunsight...
...Credit. Results came fast: a sharp cut in gunsight building time, praise from the Navy and millions of dollars in orders for torpedo directors (1,000 parts, superfine machining), gyroscopic contraptions to offset warship roll, other precision instruments. Meanwhile General Mills put at least one super-secret device into production behind locked and guarded doors -a gadget to smoke-screen an entire city in seconds...
...never got out. Ahead of the Sand-Walkers there was a band of young men, traveling in 20 wagons, unencumbered by women or children, known as the Jayhawkers, who split off to save themselves when the train bogged down, turned aside to locate what became known as the Lost Gunsight Mine, and never got out of Death Valley either. Only survivors were the families in four wagons trailing behind the Jayhawkers. When, the wagons could go no further, two young scouts pushed ahead, traveled 25 days across the desert, shooting a crow, a hawk and a quail for food, returning...
...author, Death Valley Prospectors is partly an account of Author Coolidge's travels through the Valley, partly history as he picked it up from his reading and his talks with Indians and oldtimers like Death Valley Scotty. The first famed lost mine in the Valley after the Gunsight was the Breyfogle. Huge, big-footed Louis Jacob Breyfogle found it in 1864, brought back ore that was rotten with gold, but he had been so tormented by his Indian captors that he went crazy whenever he approached the area of his wealth and suffering. The Indians had started following...