Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Standard Oil with onetime bookkeeper Rockefeller. When he died in 1891, Pratt was Brooklyn's richest citizen, a solid, sharp-faced, goateed, philanthropic Baptist. To his six sons and two daughters he left an 800-acre estate at Glen Cove, on Long Island's North Shore, where they built themselves manor houses...
Traveling through the sixth Naval district on his first service assignment, Mundorff was next attached to the In Shore Patrol Base, Mayport. Florida. After working with the NROTC Unit at Georgia Tech, he organized the original V-12 Unit at that University...
...summer day in 1853, the port of Uraga was decked in holiday style. Brightly painted, flag-festooned screens lined the shore of lower Tokyo Bay. Soldiers paraded in burnished armor. Elegant emissaries of the Mikado in exquisite brocades, and velvets turned out to greet Commodore Matthew Perry as he debarked from the U.S. man-o'-war Susquehanna...
...Chicago, a speculator paid $280,000 for a large apartment house on Lake Shore Drive. By threatening to remodel the building into smaller apartments (a legal cause for eviction), he forced the tenants to form a co-op and buy the building. His quick profit...
...Loran shore stations always work in pairs: the "master" and the "slave" (see diagram). Both operate on the same frequency and both broadcast the same radio "pulse signals"-short bursts of radio energy transmitted at regular intervals. The pulse from the master station appears as a "pip" on the "scope" of the plane's loran receiver. It also sets off a second pulse from the slave station, which is received as a second pip. The pulses arrive at slightly different times, since they have traveled different distances...