Word: spoutings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sept. 7). This suicidal suggestion at once drew protests from airmen all over the world, including Lindbergh, who had not been consulted. Chastened Minister Cot then extended the starting period to a month and closed the race to all but multi-motored planes with radios. But protests continued to spout and the U. S. Department of Commerce finally declared that it would not permit the race (TIME, May 31). By this time the handwriting was clearly on the wall, but stubborn Minister Cot refused to call off the idea. As a substitute publicity stunt for the Exposition, he devised...
...their sewers few city dwellers give a second thought, so basic and taken-for-granted is sewage disposal in urban life. New York City's sewers spout 1,107,000,000 gallons every 24 hours. Chicago's daily 800,000,000 gallons would make a 100-acre lake 40 ft. deep. There is a mile of sewers for every 1,000 persons in the U. S. Even a half-hour suspension of sewage disposal might cripple city existence, but who cares...
...with complaints from individuals who became ill after a meal in these hotels. Intensive search failed to reveal the cause. Finally it was discovered that a silver polish used in these hotels contained potassium cyanide. A minute residue of this polish on a fork or from a tea-pot spout was quite sufficient to produce severe gastro-intestinal symptoms...
...sailor has never seen a waterspout, but when they appear at all they are usually in groups. As many as 30 have been sighted from a single ship in one day. Twenty or thirty feet is the average diameter, although a few are as thick as 700 ft. Spouts a mile high have been reported. Usually they move with the wind but may travel in other directions at speeds up to 80 m.p.h. Average life of a spout...
...vicious spout swung inland from the bay off Swansea, Wales, struck a hillside, gutted a row of houses, washed 8,000 tons of earth, rock, debris and human beings to the bottom of the slope. Once a waterspout hit a White Star liner headon, doused the crow's nest, slopped tons of water on the decks, wrecked the bridge and chartroom, flooded cabins. Five years ago Bordeaux housewives reaped a harvest of small fish swept up from the River Garonne into a water twister, carried inshore and deposited wriggling in the streets...