Word: spruced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Platoon received the highest rating on spruce quarters from Capt. Bernard A. Merriam, company commander, with the 3d, 2d and 1st trailing in that order...
...friends knew William Thomas Clatterbuck as a man who worked hard to support his wife and four children, but never quite seemed to be out of debt. Not long ago he had borrowed $2,500 to spruce up his two-story frame house in the Blue Ridge foothills near Hillsboro, Va. A stonecrusher in a quarry, William Clatter-buck, 33, was powerfully built (240 lb.). He was kind and shy; he gave $5 a week to the Nazarene Church; he often carried candy to give to children as he walked down the street...
...British air force's four planes, one (a Farman biplane) belonged to the officer who flew it. The other three were Government-owned Bristol Box Kites, contraptions of ash, spruce, cotton fabric, weighing half a ton and held together with "a tangle of piano wire." Pilots who wanted to test the rigging were said to place a bird in the pilot's seat. "If the bird managed to get out, they knew that there must be a wire missing...
...Oregon's low, richly weathered barns, began by designing long, low, rambling houses with wide eaves, which gave "a feeling of protection" against the heavy northwest rains. Because eaves cut off too much light, Belluschi introduced many large, carefully placed windows. His materials were mostly local woods-fir, spruce, cedar, hemlock-which, left in their natural state, colored sumptuously with age and weathering...
...spring Hobbs and Comstock discovered that the Army was shipping heavy steel huts all the way from Quonset, R.I. to the Arctic. These huts were not too satisfactory. The partners at once thought of making plywood and Masonite huts right in Seattle. In 21 days they designed their round, spruce-ribbed hut, sold the Army an educational order for 85. The first ones turned out so well that by September they had Army encouragement to build a new plant. They raised $100,000 to buy an abandoned shipyard and an adjoining gas station, built a 100,000-sq.-ft. factory...