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Through a Roman-style aqueduct tunneled under the surrounding mountains, electric pumps 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...
With godhead, a quicksilver skeleton, in his body...
...display of military morals was the Regular Army, 1940 model, which was about to strut its stuff for the U. S. people. Although they have spent some $2,600,000,000 on their Army since its renaissance began, they undoubtedly expected to hear more poor-mouth talk about a skeleton Army, starved since World War I, not pretending even to itself that it could fight a battle. What they actually will see and hear is that their Army is over the hill and out of the poor house...
...fill out the two ships' skeleton crews, 770 officers and men were imported in the Antonia but did not set foot in the U. S. *Queen Mary is capable of 32 knots, Mauretania of 22. Maximum for a submarine, on the surface, is 19 knots...
...forgot to bring back certain historical documents [i e., one of four copies of Magna Charta, deposited in the Library of Congress]. Now they must pay $1,000 a day docking charges. . . . What is the Queen Elizabeth anyway. It is not even finished. In fact, it is half a skeleton. Now, the Bremen-that was something...