Word: saucers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began sluicing 4,500,000 cu. ft. of water per day. Nearly three years later, the level of the lake lowered some 60 feet, two crumbling skeleton frameworks lay exposed. Made of oak, pine and fir, covered with woolen cloth and sheathed outside with lead studded with bronze, the saucer-bottomed ships were 220 and 235 feet long. To facilitate navigation on the tiny lake, a pair of rudders could be fixed to either end of each barge. Lead piping indicated that fountains and gardens had once decorated the broad decks, but all this grandeur had fallen through into...
Though the Quadrangular meet at the Boston Garden next Saturday will not include the heralded classic mile that added thrills to the other meets in the wooden saucer this winter, it is compensated for the loss of this one event thrill by a close, brilliant team competition...
...witness this setup, 90,000 fans squeezed into Pasadena's famed saucer last week and millions more the world over listened at their radios. Tennessee lacked Southern California's bonecrushing manpower. It had no giants like Smith and Sohn (2201b. guards), but its boys were fast, cagey and tough. Neyland, a hardbitten perfectionist, had made them the best-drilled blockers in the land...