Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's delegation started the symbolic march along the aisles, blowing tin whistles. It took a long time working up steam, but it was not until 32 minutes later that Joe Martin, barking like the neighbor's old dog to whom no one ever pays any attention, restored order. The seconding speeches began...
...dory like a steam engine," the youth reported. "I went right up out of the boat and I came down on his flat, slippery hump." The young lobsterman swore he dug his fingers into the whale's hide and rode him like a horse. "Then," he said, "the whale sounded. That was my chance, and I took it-I abandoned him to starboard and started swimming...
...seagoing islanders among the most airminded people in the world is Stanley C. Kennedy, 58, the island-born, Stanford-educated president of the line. When he came home from World War I service as a Navy flyer, Stan Kennedy tried to get his father's Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co., for years the only inter-island freight and passenger carrier, to start an airline. Instead of 15 hours from Honolulu to Hilo, he argued, it would take only a few hours. Old James Kennedy, a hypercautious Scotsman, said nothing doing...
...steam was used to concentrate boric acid brought to the surface by natural soffioni (blowholes). In 1905 it ran a steam engine and a 20-kilowatt generator. A sizable industry has grown up around Larderello, producing borax, carbon dioxide and ammonia as well as power. Italian geologists believe that the output, both of chemicals and power, can be increased considerably, hence the new power plant...
Once a year, the dignified Bond Club of New York lets off steam-in the faces of the biggest targets it can find-in the Bawl Street Journal, a ribald parody of the Wall Street Journal. In the issue out this week, a loud blast was directed at Outlander (Cleveland) and Banker-Hater Robert R. Young, along with a ribbing cartoon (see cut). Said the Journal: "ICC will give a polite reason for permitting Robert Young to join the New York Central board. Real reason ... is to 'stop those silly...