Word: outerness
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Hydraulic presses bent the lengths of 27-in. steel pipe to fit every bump, dip, peak and ravine along the snaking route. Winches and big tractors swung the 30-ft. sections into position, and welders sealed the joints. The outer covering was finally tested with the pipeliners' "conscience": a machine that uses a 10,000-volt electrical charge, and registers a short circuit at any spot where the covering is too thin. Then bulldozers filled in the trench, leaving only a great scar winding across the forest and the mountains...
...smoke and drink, much like the rest of their fellow men. (The Koran's traditional prohibition of alcohol is not strictly observed outside of the month of Ramadan.) The world of Islam, after defiantly exhibiting its separateness, once more let its identity superficially merge with an outer world of machines, nightclubs and psychiatrists, of Christianity and Communism...
...addition to the variety night-cared crew, three other shills of Crimson baseman will compete in the Olympic tryouts on July 4-5 on Lake Quinsigamond of Were deter, might Harvard alum al have forced groups to outer three different classes of rowing, in on effort to earn a place on the Olympic team on the trip to Finland for the 2958 games...
...been proposed by assorted experts in half a century, none has displaced the familiar Snellen chart, topped by its king-sized "E". But this week the American Optometric Association announced the adoption of a chart made up of numerals, which, its members hope, will send the old Snellen into outer darkness...
...undergraduate division, James P. Moffet '51 won a first prize of $500 for his essay entitled, "The Relation of the laner and Outer Lives in the Works of Virginia Woolf." Henry Steele Commager Jr. '54 won the second prize of $300 and Thomas J. McGrath '52 won a $100 third prize...