Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasons. See how simple: you spit between the sections that are to be riveted ?so. In the cold up here, the spittle freezes?but the riveter cannot see because it looks silvery, like the duralumin, so he drives his rivet in. Then next June when they launch the ship, the warm air will thaw the spittle, the rivet will be loose. Soon something may happen...
...first time out on the river with a launch, the Lowell crew met with an unfortunate obstacle in the river yesterday. Partly as a result of the wind, and partly due to the presence of the Browne and Nichols float, the Lowell House shell met with misfortune. The crew returned home in the launch...
...Keen, swart, mustachioed Mr. Griswold has influential connections and a thorough understanding of how securities are issued, how the press receives them. He, better than Winfield Sheehan, Fox vice president and general manager, and better than any Fox man accustomed to the usual cinema publicity, should be able to launch the forthcoming Fox bonds into a quiet and receptive financial...
...members of the teaching staff; but the friends of that reform should not expect it to be a panacea for the ills which have developed in school and college athletics in this country. The coach who has hitherto spent his time on the side lines or in the launch will not change his spot, if he has any, when he takes a place in the company of those whose chief interests are academic. His new relationship will not make him a new man. The high-minded coach does not need such a contact in order to acquire proper ideals...
...Soundings Tomlinson writes on: skiing in Switzerland, a launch trip in the Malay Archipelago, Sea-Dog Frobisher and contemporary worthies, an overnight voyage in a wrecking tug, the talkies, an old man who loses his identity on a train, Thomas Hardy, et al. Whether you read him for the first time or the 20th you will probably admire his musing, sombre earnestness. Whether it bores you or sustains you depends on whether you like pipe-smoking, solitude, reflection...