Word: spins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...system of locks and canals providing a channel 14 ft. deep. Under the 1941 agreement, this would be replaced by a 27-ft. channel (deep enough for 80% of the world's shipping) through construction of seven new locks. Additionally, five dams would harness the International Rapids to spin 36 turbines at Barnhart Island. The project would cost Canada $412 million, the U.S. $523 million. It would take six years, provide 15,000 jobs, consume 150,000 tons of steel and 7,300,000 barrels of cement...
...rank" insult to the many intelligent service women in all the branches who have had to earn their commissions the hard way ... I suggest that on her next gift ride from the taxpayers, they take her up 30,000 feet sans oxygen and sans girdle, put her into a spin and let her bring it out herself...
...learned fugues before fractions, Bradford is content to spin recordings of 24 operas for a salary of $25 a week. He is never disrespectful to the music of opera, only its plots: "What is opera but some of the world's finest sounds wrapped up in the world's silliest stories...
...Tokyo car dealer had good news for Hirohito, who has been making do with a 15-year-old Packard. The Emperor could come right down and pick up his "glorious grey" Cadillac, ordered three years ago. After a trial spin, the delighted owner ordered his imperial crest (a 16-petaled chrysanthemum...
...drive had ended with a fumble on the Yale 33, the Elis, with Doug Treat gaining consistently through the middle on a fake pass play, went to the Yardling 35, before the Crimson finally held. Then Treat punted a ball that hit the goal line, but had enough reverse spin to stop dead on the four...