Word: oak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treatment makes pine as hard as oak, oak as hard as ebony. Wood so treated does not warp, split, swell or shrink appreciably. It resists fire, rotting and termites, can be made as strong as many metals. It can be dyed any color so that it never needs painting or refinishing. If the surface is scratched, its glossy finish can be restored by sandpapering and buffing. Impregnated wood makes possible among other things, doors, windows and drawers that do not stick or get loose...
...R.C.A.F. after having been rejected (because he was married) by the Army & Navy Air Corps, served 18 months of active service in England as a sergeant-pilot before transferring to the U.S.A.A.F. as a flight officer. He had completed 57 combat missions, been awarded the Air Medal and three Oak Leaf clusters, was scheduled to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross...
...benefit of other civilians, I forward a message to us all from a letter written by an A.A.F. captain now flying a Liberator in the Central Pacific; he wears the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster...
...years since 32 members of the staff are occupied full time in war service. The making of photographs of the sun, stars, nebulae, and galaxies is maintained at a rate of 80 per cent of normal, however. Several thousand photographs a year are made at the stations in Cambridge, Oak Ridge, and Bloomfontein...
...Delaware Valley country. In Volume II the frontier has advanced to the Juniata. The Forest and the Fort chiefly concerned the adventures of Salathiel Al-bine, who was kidnapped and brought up by the Indians, grew into a 6 ft. 4 in. paleface with muscles like "fluid oak wood." Salathiel reappears in Bedford Village as one of seven frontiersmen who help Captain Jack Fenwick carry out his vow to exterminate the Indians...