Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coal was desperately rare. Even before the shortage its price had been so high that mines found it cheaper to use water power than steam power generated on the premises by their own coal. The shortage was caused by lack of laborers, transport difficulties, and breakdown of the mining-equipment industry. One whole mine recently fell idle for want of a single bearing which could not be speedily replaced...
...Dardanelles, after doing her part at Trafalgar (1805) under Admiral Nelson. Ajax No. 3, a 74-gunner, backed up the Duke of Wellington's siege of San Sebastian in 1813. Ajax No. 5 (Nos. 4 & 6 played no part in history) was a wooden, 60-gun, steam ship of the line. She took part in the bombardment of Bomarsund Fortress in the Aland Islands (then Russian, now Finnish) in 1854 ("Crimean" War). Smallpox killed more British sailors there than did Russian cannon, so the British left. Ajax No. 7 was a sister of the Iron Duke. She served...
Mademoiselle Paris, in private life Miss Andree Lorrain, stepped off the train into a barrage of cameras and the blare of Brown's swing band (which was almost wholly drowned out by the scream of steam escaping from the locomotive...
Back went Professor Romer's answer: Dimetrodon's call he did not know, but Tyrannosaurus's call bordered on the sound of a radiator steam pipe and a crocodile. The only difficulty was that there couldn't have been a death struggle, for they lived 150,000,000 years apart...
...after it had worked on an ape, is unimportant. To criticisms of such free handling of biography in his pictures, Director Dieterle long ago wrote the best answer. Said he: ".. . The dramatization of a man's life is condensing, and not copying, the historical facts. It is the steam, and not the water, that moves the engine...