Word: plate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There will be one door (a thick plate) and two windows, one of them set in the center of the door. Instead of glass, or the quartz used by William Beebe in his record-holding (3,028 ft.) bathysphere, the windows will be Plexiglas cones with the narrow ends pointing inward. Professor Piccard theorizes that the pressure will squash the elastic Plexiglas windows firmly into their sockets...
...watermelon and stared at it with a kind of torpid cunning. He made it last a long time. He built a juicy suspension bridge by excavating delicately at the center of the slice, then wrecked it slowly, sadly, and with infinite care. He counted the black seeds on his plate before he dragged himself back to the unthinkable horrors of his desk, his telephone and his electric...
...last week a green jeep with no number plate drove in the gate of the Secretariat in Rangoon, where the Burmese Government's Executive Council was meeting. Four Burmans in British Twelfth...
...guess football players don't blossom in the summer," remarked Cox balancing delicately on one palm. By way of illustration, downfield on the Varsity baseball diamond, Chip Gannon was uncorking 150 yard passes. Standing behind home plate he was reaching centerfield with alarming consistency...
...manages to hide the ball more expertly: it comes up at a batsman out of nowhere as "alive" as an eel and just as hard to get hold of. Besides getting extra leverage from his wide sidearm sweep, Blackwell's awkward motion keeps enemy batsmen loose at the plate-just in case one of his pitches gets out of control. The third man to face Blackwell in the All-Star game was Boston's Ted Williams, who just looked at a third strike whizzing...