Word: stack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friendliness at times. But mentally they are poles apart on most things. Welles is one of the swiftest, most businesslike administrators in the Government; Hull, perhaps because of his 24 years in Congress, is firm in his upright beliefs but lost in masses of papers and data that stack his desk...
...superstructure is bent and twisted. Stack and masts are gone. Abovedeck quarters are oil-blackened ruins. Ranges in the crew's galley are thick with rust. The once-elaborate captain's cabin is a mess of shattered furniture, moldering linoleum. The cork-lined deckhead is caving in. ... The wooden deck is pocked with the borings of teredos (shipworms). . . . From her opened hatches comes the nauseating odor of gases. Inside her foul carcass are rotting vegetables, meats, ship's supplies, human bodies. ... In the horrible, blackened wreckage of the crew's quarters you can still...
Biggest bolt ever recorded: a flaring snapper which hit the 585-ft. smelter stack of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at Butte, Mont., in the summer of 1941. Its current totaled more than 160,000 amperes; its estimated pressure exceeded 15,000,000 volts. (Ordinary home circuit: 110 volts...
...most poignant memory of our first day at Radcliffe concerns the ladders of Briggs Hall. On the first trip up to the fourth deck we labored with a load of luggage. The second jaunt was a struggle to keep a toehold under a four-foot stack of publications. Last cargo hauled by this Naval Transportation Service was fifteen pounds of bedding...
...experience would probably be the determining factor for starting assignments in the Tufts clash but new face will be popping up during the season as the newcomers realize their potentialities. Things in general looked in Saturday's slambang, two hour scrimmage, but "we don't know how we'll stack up against another team," asserted Hanford, Enthusizsm is one quality that the stickmen are long on, as became painful obvious Saturday when several men limped off the field after close-contact skirmishes...