Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home to Sharon. The Navy Department said that "Tommy" Hart gave up his command with honor, and by his own request. He had extricated his Asiatic Fleet of cruisers, destroyers, submarines and an aircraft carrier from Manila and placed them in Java, where they could stab at the Jap's invading convoys. He had directed the aggressive naval action in Macassar Strait. But his years and burdens told; Washington heard some weeks ago that he was ill. President Roosevelt announced that Admiral Hart-now eight months past the usual retirement age-would come home for a while. He probably...
...Mademoiselle," who has just begun a daily column in the Boston Herald, and finds time also to proclaim his disapprobation of popular idols in the swing world once a month in "Downbeat" and "Music and Rhythm." With all this, and an occasional short story, not to forget a casual stab at the great American novel, his creative urge has not been satisfied, and George has once more bloomed forth, this time with the lyrics to "Harvard Blues...
Shotwelding is a refinement of spot welding designed for stainless steel (usual formula: 18% chromium, 8% nickel), whose great tensile strength-four times that of ordinary carbon steel-is lost when it is heated to 1,100° to 1,600°. The Shotwelding electrodes stab the metal for 1/10 th 1/20 th of a second, heating it so instantaneously through its danger zone to its 2,700° fusing point that the alloy's unique strength is not affected. Invented by Budd Manufacturing Co. (and used for making stainless steel railroad coaches), Shotwelding may well make steel planes...
...hearings on the defense bill, OPM made a stab at guessing what U.S. industry...
...many hours later the men of the Ark learned that the big girl, top-heavy with her thick deck armor, had rolled over on her back, lifted herself a bit by the stern, like some great animal making a last stab at survival, then plunged. The men were heartbroken, not over the fact, inconsequential to most of them, that Britain's third carrier loss* left the Royal Navy only nine of these invaluable craft, but simply because their invulnerable, incomparable Ark was gone...