Word: outward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outward appearance Burgess' destroyer is a close-coupled version of the current models. It will steam at a top of 52 knots (60 m.p.h.). Displacing around 1,000 tons (steel destroyers: 1,500 to 2,000), it will be about 275 feet long, have almost as much gun and torpedo power as its standard sisters. It will have more anti-aircraft fire power, carry more depth charges for potting its natural enemy, the submarine. But it will be an experimental ship until tests at sea (and enough aluminum at home) convince the Navy that Designer Burgess has another winner...
Wandered, until he rose and outward leaned...
...building in a scrub-pine clearing 40 miles away. There with the aid of a wafer of quartz crystal vibrating at a constant frequency of perhaps 11,830,000 cycles per second, and boosted by thousands of watts of electric power, the vibrations ripple from a great antenna outward in waves 26 meters long. In no time at all (for their speed is that of light], they reach a point in the darkness 3,000 miles away. A man there has a receiving set in his cellar tuned to the right wave length. He is risking prison or maybe death...
...President Taylor (American President Lines), outward bound for a general Far Eastern cargo, probably ducked into Singapore. Sister ship President Madison was near Honolulu; her senior officers already may be riding Waikiki surfboards...
...once on intimate terms with I. G. Farben. The intimacy was ostensibly terminated a year ago; I. G. Chemie paid I. G. Farben 25,000,000 Swiss francs, and the Farben's interest in I. G. Chemie seemed almost to vanish. But General Aniline's outward characteristics remained not Swiss but German. Its president, Dietrich A. Schmitz, is a brother of the chairman of the board of I. G. Farben, Hermann Schmitz. Walter H. vom Rath, Aniline's secretary, is the son of a Schmitz predecessor as chairman of the Farben. General Aniline had some distinguished American...