Word: layered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official confession, ships so far along in construction cannot be altered to benefit in full from the antiaircraft lessons taught by World War II. Washington VI nonetheless is far ahead of Washington V: longer (125 ft.); 16-inch armor (instead of tapering from 16 to 14 inches); two layers of deck armor, instead of a single, three-inch layer (the upper one six inches thick, the lower four inches); faster (rated at 28 knots, expected to better that; the last Washington was rated at 21 knots). Probable cost: a whopping...
...more than 150 yards under the direction of Archeologist Frank Cummings Hibben of the nearby University of New Mexico. The floor, as found, was littered with droppings of rats and bats. Under that was a stalagmite formation made of limestone dissolved from the roof; under that a Folsom layer containing typical Folsom spearpoints, charcoal, bones of sloths and catlike carnivores not yet identified; under that a layer of "sterile" yellow ochre (containing no bones or implements), showing that the cave was uninhabited during a wet spell; under that the Sandia layer (see cut), containing lance or javelin points, remains...
Treachery ashore disarmed the Norwegian ships and coast gun crews at Norway's naval base of Horten, across Oslo Fjord from Moss. But the Norse mine layer Olav Tryggvason put in there unexpectedly for repairs Monday evening, unbeknownst to the plotters. When, before dawn, she beheld German warboats coming in unchallenged, she promptly torpedoed the cruiser Emden and a submarine. One coast gun crew in the narrows above Horten remained loyal long enough to sink the Blucher, but a minefield in the narrows was rendered harmless by Nor way's betrayers, just as a message from Vidkun Quisling...
...determine the causes for the recent disruption of broadcasting by sun spots, they will measure the density of the ionosphere, an atmosphere layer above the stratosphere, during the eclipse of the sun next October...
...surgeon neatly closed layer upon layer of muscle, Dr. Nixon turned to Louis, who lay quietly smiling under the spotlight. "Louis," he said, "you're the first person in history ever to tell people about his operation before it is even over. . . . Would you like to say hello...