Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certain eminent and well-known gentleman in our company is the only officer among as who arrived at Harvard with no previous naval experience or training. So some solicitous, salt-encrusted shipmates have prepared for him a glossary of nautical terms which they guarantee will make his first cruise a breeze, if not a gale. Naturally, much of this is classified material, but an abridged version is here set forth...
...adequate pipelines. The lines were approved by WPB, but frantically opposed by local truckers. Last week Oil Czar Ickes stepped into the fracas, recommended immediate construction of two new pipelines (one to Billings and Laurel refineries in Montana, the other to connect with Stanolind's big line to Salt Lake). When the new lines are pushed through next year, Nettie's homestead will really begin...
...Court found that Breasts of Youth contained some moisture, common salt, magnesium and an unidentified ovarian substance. Dr. Willard O. Thompson, associate professor of medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, testified: "No food I know of will act on the breasts alone or develop them...
...worst enemy of a ship at sea is not storm or submarine but salt water. It corrodes a ship's hull, propellers and condensers, greatly shortens a ship's life. Salt water has been brutal to the overworked ships of World War II; corrosion of their condensers (in which cold sea water is pumped through tubes to condense spent steam from the engines) has been so accelerated that many have to lay up every nine months for retubing. But a device to draw the sting from salt water has been developed by a Seattle marine engineer named Arley...
Tests proved Durham right. He further found that the rotation of a ship's engines sets up a weak electric current, which charges a ship's metal. In salt sea water, which is an excellent electrolytic bath, the metal is swiftly eaten away. Durham had no idea where the metal went, but he hit on a simple way to stop it: suspending in the water another metal higher in the electrolytic scale. Thus, when he installed a piece of zinc, electrically wired to the ship, near a bronze propeller, the propeller picked up zinc deposits instead of losing...