Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accepting from Republic a consignment of guns, ammunition and tear gas. "I finally told them it was up to the mayor," testified Chief Switter. ''They made the old boy pretty hot. Then they jumped on me. I said all right I would appoint the whole damned outfit. I would give them everything they wanted. I could see there would be a battle and bloodshed as soon as they put guns into those rookies' hands...
Returning belatedly from the Coronation of George VI, James Watson Gerard, Wartime U. S. Ambassador to Germany, commented, ''The Americans who wore knee breeches at the ceremony showed a fine set of legs. There wasn't a knocking knee or bandy leg in the whole outfit...
...months Prof. Piccard had been talking of stratosphere ascents in which the lifting power would be provided not by one big balloon but a cluster of small ones. It was his theory that with such an outfit he could keep on ascending until some of the balloons burst (because of the diminishing outside air pressure). Also, he could descend at will by putting several balloons out of commission with a pistol. He thought 2,000 four-foot rubber balloons would be enough for a record flight. Last week's ascent, using only 80 balloons, was in the nature...
...forges sprang the present town of Birdsboro and the Birdsboro Steel Foundry & Machine Co. William Bird's eldest son Mark added other forges, a rolling mill, slitting mill and what is believed to be the first U. S. nail factory. By the Revolution he was wealthy enough to outfit 300 men to aid Washington after the Battle of Brandywine. Continental Congress minutes record fat payments to Birdsboro for munitions of war. In 1783 Mark Bird petitioned Congress that the "chain prepared to throw across the Hudson River" be returned since it was not paid for. Soon thereafter he failed...
...Varsity lacrosse team is probably the fourth most successful outfit with a record of eight wins and two losses, but one of their defeats was in the all-important Yale game which deserves a double rating in any account of Harvard teams...