Word: junks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taking up with his housekeeper, an illiterate but devoted peasant girl who was ostracized from the Mennonite Church for bearing him two children out of wedlock, Rembrandt moved to dingy quarters over a ghetto junk shop, and continued to paint more intensely than ever. When his son, whom he idolized, died in 1668, aged but upright Painter Rembrandt stumped in proud sorrow to the graveyard, dressed in his best: a moth-eaten, fur-lined overcoat spattered with paint...
...remainder of 1,000 A.F. of L. workmen who had been at work on the island deepened air-raid shelters, helped out Marines at their tasks. On the airdrome, mechanics and officers of the Marine's air squadron, VMF-211, patched up new planes from the tangled junk of their original twelve, now broken and burned by Jap bombs...
These amazing, interrelated economies have made welding the greatest bottleneck smasher in U.S. shipbuilding. Welding is being used wherever possible, but some riveting still goes on. Reason: shortage of welders, and the existence of riveting skills and equipment which it is not yet wise to junk. In 1918 some 16% of a ship yard's personnel were riveters. Today the average is about...
...outburst of patriotism prompted by yesterday's news reports on the Japanese situation, the builders and owners of the Chinese junk "Little Mermaid of the North Atlantic," launched on the Charles last spring, turned the diminutive vessel over to the United States naval authorities...
Although no word has yet been received from the Navy Department, the donors confidently asserted that their ship will be used either by the Intelligence Department, or as a "suicide junk," which will be loaded with explosives and used to blow up one of the key boats of the Japanese fleet. "Or else," they said, "her cruising range of 20 miles will insure the safety of our western coast...