Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Renunciation. Europe and Asia, more interested than ever in what the U.S. was up to, would watch the renunciation ceremonies in Manila with sidelong intensity. In a temporary grandstand just outside the old, grey Intramuros, in a welter of tropic steam and emotion, there would be excitement which many a straw-hatted Filipino could feel to his heels...
...from Kwajalein, 250 miles from Bikini. As it makes three trial runs over the orange-colored U.S.S. Nevada, takes readings of wind drift and adjusts the bomb sights, a loudspeaker will alert the whole area. Ten or more miles from the target, the operational ships will keep up steam in case the wind shifts. Aboard, some 40,000 men will lie down on the decks with their feet toward the blast and their eyes covered against blinding...
...shores of the choppy Irish Sea. At 3 a.m. it was the glamorous, slightly mysterious Night Scot, running up past the misty green Lake District to salty Glasgow on the Clyde. In the evening it was the Comet from Manchester, pulling through the yards and spitting scornful clouds of steam. As the years and the big trains rolled by, Harley's dream that he would run one some day went up in the sooty smoke of Crewe. His passion for the glorious trains rotted away into consuming hatred...
Comparative scores have always been misleading, but the 1946 Yale record shows a powerful team that has steam-rollered most of the Northeast. Its 9 and 2 record includes two victories over West Point and a 17 to 3 thrashing handed to Brown. Only losses have been at the hands of Holy Cross and Kings Point. Dartmouth edged the Cantabs 1 to 0, but the Elis tumbled them twice, 10 to 6 and 3 to 2; Kings Point has beaten both Crimson and Blue, but while the former succumbed, 10 to 2, the latter lost by only...
...materialize, one-time ward buildings of the Lovell General Hospital, located on a hill overlooking the Nashua River, will become complete apartments for students and their families. The single-story wooden structures will be altered to provide living rooms, baths, kitchens, and one, two or three bedrooms, equipped with steam heating, electricity, and hot water. Furthermore, halls utilized during the war for recreation centers, post Exchanges, and processing buildings will be available for use by the community...