Word: ns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foamy bones in their fresh grey teeth, 90 U. S. men-o'-war rolled out of the sunswept Gulf of Gonaives last week, skirted the heat-hazy shores of Haiti, furrowed their way up toward the Atlantic Coast. Far out in the empty sea, bos'ns' whistles suddenly piped all hands to the rails. Drums ruffled, trumpets flourished and while junior officers manned bridges with stadimeters to keep the vast armada precisely in line, bands crashed out the national anthem. Twenty-one times gunners tripped the breech blocks of the 6-pounders. These lonely pomps were...
...sisters of old Georgetown; Larry Benet married her after he returned as an ensign from the Spanish-American War. Best known of his family are his nephews Poets William Rose and Stephen Vincent Benet. He lives in a beautiful apartment on Avenue de Camoëns with a fine view across Paris to the Sacre Coeur, white in the sun. He is a Commander of the Legion of Honor, a Commander of the Military Order of Christ (Portuga), an Officer of Osmania (Turkey), a Commander of the Crown of Rumania. He belongs to the American Legion, the U. S. Naval...
...Highest degree to which water can go and remain water is 698° F. Its pressure against pipes is then almost 2,900 lb. per sq. in. This difficulty gives value to a new fluid which Dr. Arthur Dehon Little, Boston chemist, discovered in Germany and reported last week. "NS fluid" is the cryptic name of the substance. Basically it is a mixture of metallic chlorides-sodium chloride (table salt), anhydrous aluminum chloride and ferric chloride. The mixture turns to liquid at 302° F. and flows as freely as water. At 1,500° F. it is still liquid...
...great ship plunged from its 1,600 ft. altitude. The commander reached for a row of pullcords overhead, yanked at them to release water ballast. Slowly, painfully, the shuddering Akron shouldered her way aloft again. An "all hands on" brought the off-watch from their bunks. Officers, bos'ns' mates, riggers, firemen groped their way along narrow catwalks to their stations...
...house has risen; it is given Not by one citizen or State; it stands, Given to ns by many hundred hands American and British; nay, each race Upon this earth has helped to build this place. Lovers of Shakespeare everywhere have striven. Every man gave it out of all earth's lands...