Word: rede
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tankers of the future may be giant descendants of sausage skins. Two years ago Engineering Professor William Rede Hawthorne of Britain's Cambridge University got empty sausage skins from his butcher, filled them with alcohol, tied the ends and towed them in the laboratory's wave tank. The alcohol sausages rode the waves so valiantly that he got financial backing from Esso Petroleum Co., Ltd. to build and test good-sized flexible barges...
...quotations on the left are excerpts from "Black Mamba," a story by William Conboy '52 in the December issue of "The Harvard Advocate." These on the right are from "Sun," a short story by D. H. Lawrence, in "The Woman Who Rede Away and Other Stories", copyright 1927 by Alfred A. Knopf...