Word: outer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blister" or "Bulge" is a device resorted to in remodeling older ships to protect them from torpedo, mine or bomb explosions alongside. In new ships many watertight bulkheads keep the ship afloat in such a case. In older ships, by building a sort of outer hull (the "blister" or "bulge") outside the regular hull, a similar protection is achieved...
...yelled a shrill female voice. "Chuck it, Liz," growled her young man. "Jus' look at 'is 'at," shrieked the damsel. The crowd looked; and although they had all seen it before, they broke into jeering laughter. And so it is year after year; yet these taunts are the outer signs of an inner satisfaction and pride; no Londoner would willingly miss the Lord Mayor's Show, rain or sunshine...
Richard Brittingham, a Sophomore at the Yale Sheffield Scientific School, and a candidate for the crew manager-ship, was taken out to Belle Dock in the middle of the harbor early Tuesday afternoon by the crew launch to check the shells as they rounded the outer mark, and to see that no mishap occurred. After supper that evening some thoughtful person remembered that he had not been brought back. A search was started immediately, and at about 9 o'clock the faithful but gloomy candidate was found still sitting at his post...
...materials of an airship deteriorate rapidly. What will happen to the outer covering and the delicate inner cells when the ships are used in all weather and left attached to mooring masts...
...opened by the Grand Dragon of Nebraska. Then the Imperial Wizard, Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans of Atlanta, appeared, accompanied by his Kloncilium (Cabinet) consisting of 15 genii: Klaliff (First Vice President), Klazik (Second Vice President), Klokard (lecturer), Kludd (chaplain), Kligrapp (secretary), Klabee (Treasurer), Kladd ("Conductor")*, Klarogo (Inner-guard), Klexter (Outer-guard), Klonsel (Attorney), Night Hawk (Courier) and the four Klokann (auditors...