Search Details

Word: steams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Yale may hope to generate enough steam to make its running attack click, but that is only a forlorn hope. All that Coach Pond really wants is to flash an effective enough ground offense to keep Harvard worried. afraid to devote all its attention to Yale aerials...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: RUGGED HARVARD FAVORED IN YALE CLASSIC | 11/22/1940 | See Source »

...Michigan, a vote against godly Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson, 81, Republican, was by implication a vote for sin. Nevertheless, Michiganders sided against the angels, voted in up-&-coming Highway Commissioner Murray D. Van Wagoner, who had quietly built himself a steam roller to ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES: Governors | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...attackers, which included two Italian destroyers. She chased the 1,058-ton Francesco Nullo to shore, shelling her so she had to be beached. While the Kimberley was polishing off the Nullo with a torpedo, three field guns ashore opened up on her. Splinters from one hit damaged a steam pipe, reduced the speed of the Kimberley. Because her silhouette is not unlike the Sydney's, mistaking the Kimberley for a cruiser might be understandable. But the Italians' gloss-over of their loss of another destroyer was something else. It was further evidence that the Italian Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Kimberley over Nullo | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...Camped near the mouth of many an industrial bottleneck is Worthington Pump & Machinery. Making steam, gas and Diesel engines, an endless variety of pumps, compressors, rock drills and turbines, Worthington must deliver before many defense construction jobs can start. Third-quarter profits were $465,000, v. $360,000 last year. With six months' unfilled orders on the books, 1940 will be its fattest year since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Third-Quarter Harvest | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Making every effort to eliminate unnecessary noise, the University hired gasoline justead of the usual steam shovels. Compressed air tools will probably have to be used in cutting the holes in the Widener will for the bridge and funnel connecting Widener with the new building. If possible, workmen will do that part of the job during Christmas vacation, so that the noise of the sir cutters will not disturb classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WIDENER WORKERS SOOTHE SIDEWALK SUPERINTENDENTS, SERIOUS SCHOLARS | 10/24/1940 | See Source »

Previous | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | Next