Word: leathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chamber is a steel cylinder made of half-inch galvanized plate. Three feet in diameter and five feet high, it looks like a fat hot-water tank with an escape hatch. In addition to one cramped geologist sitting on a cushioned, red-leather seat, the chamber carries emergency oxygen, communication equipment and testing apparatus. The cylinder will withstand the pressure at a depth of 100 feet. A two-ton lead block attached to the bottom provides stability and a safety factor: the block can be released by turning a handle inside the cell to send the chamber bobbing...
...Homer's time, the bloody, bull-roaring rites of Knossos were a memory, and the hell-for-leather chariot cavalry and iron-pointed spears of the savage Dorians (the last great wave of northern barbarians to inundate Greece) had driven the Goddess into hiding. Their god, and Homer's, was her rebellious son, Zeus-who later got an ancestry...
...from the Tomb. The scientists of the new Astromental Era had remade the Earth so completely that when "F.W." emerged from his coffin (he wore the swallow-tailed coat and cracked patent-leather shoes that he had been buried in), he could not believe that he was in California. The ground was as flat as a pancake. The whole world had become a garden city without political frontiers, war, disease or extremes of climate...
...mild December night for Washington-cool and damp. In the big, oval study on the second floor of the White House, a cheery blaze crackled in the grey marble fireplace. Franklin Roosevelt leaned back in his big leather easy chair. Up & down the cluttered, cream-walled room, Harry Hopkins paced nervously. History was expected...
...Walter Bedell Smith, who had been General Eisenhower's wartime chief of staff. Now Harriman was to hold a last press conference. But before he could start talking, the door opened. State Secretary James Byrnes walked in. He was smiling and in his hand he carried a small leather case...