Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...influences on the new California style, however, is probably that of California itself. Use of native materials like redwood, dictated by economy, has become a distinguishing feature. A climate whose temperature seldom falls below freezing simplifies heating problems, allows greater freedom in window and wall structure, permits shallow foundations which need penetrate the ground only a foot or so to get below the frost line...
...shallow draft (eleven ft.) was a feature. But her four propellers, sticking out under her bottom on vertical shafts, like outboard motors, increased her actual draft...
...also seagoing patrol craft, but their range is short, and their prime function is to break up fleet attacks on bases such as the Panama Canal. The Navy last week permitted pictures to be printed of a fleet of 77-foot shallow-draft mosquito boats maneuvering off the Canal, slamming over the water at So m.p.h., armed with 50-caliber anti-aircraft guns and bearing in their powerful little bodies a pack of torpedoes. No submarine cares to surface in an area where the little motor torpedo boats operate on the alert, because a PT can run down any craft...
News analysis may and usually does lead to conclusions, which no good commentator hesitates to draw. But the analytical and the fulminating mood seldom go together. Kaltenborn's principal, pontifical broadcasts on the labor topic were tendentious, shallow in perspective. From his treatment of isolated cases of bumptiousness in labor, listeners might easily have become inflamed against labor in general...
...Seeandbee went into cruise service, on a run that was the poor man's seven-day dream-tour of the Lakes. While she was quietly aging at Cleveland's East 9th Street Pier, the U.S. Navy took a look at her shallow draft, her gangling length (484.5 feet, overall), decided that with a little face-lifting and some new glands, she would do as a remodeled carrier. Her four stacks could be moved to one side, her upper deck and superstructure torn away. The old crone would become a Valkyrie. Before summer's end, said the Navy...