Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glass-fiber yarns, once woven into decorative fabrics, are now limited to war uses only. Fireproof, rotproof and impervious to salt air, Fiberglas curtains Navy doorways to save weight and metal. Glass fabric is also used as a lampshade on million-candle-power reconnaissance flares to keep the glare out of observers' eyes and camera lenses...
After three months in the Army, I have come to the conclusion that I've had a pretty soft time. Any statements I may make, therefore, should be taken with at least three grains, of salt by future Commandos or Paratroopers. On the other hand, I've seen enough of Army life to pass on a few pointers about the vigors as well as the delights of military service...
...presence of Italian dreadnoughts was merely "interesting, just as was the fact that Henry VIII had six wives." Hen-rose's eyes were, as usual, fixed on a test tube, searching for "the slightest trace of the white precipitate of silver chloride which would indicate that there was salt in the boiler water." Chief Petty Officer Cook had turned a valve, and "steam as hot as red-hot iron" had emerged from the ship's boilers at 400º and heated a 40-gallon cauldron of soup. Chief Petty Officer O'Flaherty was delicately keeping a director...
...where saltwater angling is allowed: notably in the Pacific off Southern California's Santa Monica pier, where chartered boats may go as far as ten miles offshore ; in some parts of the Florida keys ; and the famed tarpon paradise at Aransas Pass in Texas. To fish in any salt waters requires a Coast Guard Permit...
Included in the reviewing group, besides Colonel Horkan and Colonel McReynolds, were Dean David, Assistant Dean Fraser, Lt. Col. G. F. Connor, Major Hugh Kevin, Captain Nelson Miles, Lieutenant W. R. Guthrie, and Professor Malcolm P. Macnair. Cadet Colonel George N. Cannon 3G.B., Salt Lake City, Utah, Cadet Major Norman Racusin 3G.B., Cambridge, and Cadet Sergeant Major O. C. Honig 3G.B., Boston, led the ROTC, and conducted the reviewers in an inspection tour of the three battalions...