Word: rigging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their mistakes, Professor Morison decided to apply the alfresco, learn-by-doing methods that Francis Parkman used for his History of France in the New World. In the summer of 1939 Morison and some friends bought the barkentine, Capitana, which was "near enough to Columbus' larger ships in rig and burthen to enable us to cross the ocean under conditions very similar to those of his day. . . ." In the Capitana they explored the European end of Columbus' routes, then headed back across the Atlantic. "Our crossing from Gomera to Trinidad was approximately on the route of [Columbus...
...fateful Sunday morning, the Chaplain of a battleship in Pearl Harbor was busy on the afterdeck with a couple of assistants, running up the bunting and adjusting the rig in preparation for divine service. Their polite murmurs were suddenly interrupted by the roar of the Jap. The Chaplain dropped his bunting, ran to an anti-aircraft gun and began preaching lead to the Japanese...
...when an alarm rings in, the well-oiled mechanism speeds into high gear without a check. At night, the men can awaken from a deep sleep, jump into their "night rig," scoot down the pole, and be away with sirens screaming in 26 seconds. Every motion has been carefully studied to see where life-saving minutes can down. The rescue squad, with first aid equipment, goes out on all alarins. Sometimes it in called by doctors who need oxygen immediately for, heart cases; suiciden, drown longs and gas victims always rate the rescue truck manned by experts n accident work...
...turn the ebbing tide of the cigar business, his cigarmaking subsidiary, American Cigarette and Cigar Co., had been a headache. The Pall Mall cigaret, which A. C. & C. had put out in a 15? Americanized version in 1936, fizzled despite a costly advertising campaign. So Hill borrowed Frank Rig gio's idea. He lengthened Pall Mall to King size, kept Young & Rubicam, whom he had hired in 1938, to do the advertising...
These societies are dedicated to superpatriotism. In the name of the Emperor they rig politics, liquidate moderates, break ground for military adventures, serve the Army with intrigues, keep the national fervor burning. No one knows how big the societies are, though it has been said that Mitsuru Toyama could call upon any one of 10,000 youths to murder anyone but the Emperor, and the deed would be done. The societies meet in buildings which appear to be jujitsu halls, Shinto temples, homes, business offices...