Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scale unequaled even by the Renaissance Church, they began earnestly plastering the walls of U.S. post offices and courthouses with attempts at monumentality. By 1940 they had created some 1,550 murals. Many sought heroic subject matter in modern industrialism; turning out acres of dynamos, steam presses, and blast furnaces. Because their ambition often outweighed the strength and clarity of their convictions, most of these murals were failures. Only a few have come close to striking the common man as embodiments of his ideals. High on the list of successful murals painted during this period are those of Kansan John...
Well, that's about what we civilians expect, but that word "positively" sounds a little too positive to me. You remind me of the fellow who once proved beyond any shadow of a doubt that a ship would never be able to propel itself across the Atlantic with steam because it would require more fuel than the ship could carry. He proved it with actual, unassailable figures. Positively...
...fighting far to the south, around Linghsien, Chinese troops found themselves with too few grenades to throw at the advancing Japs; they threw rocks. China's peasant soldiers fought hard. At Fuchow, the Japs loaded 3,000 wounded on 20 steam launches to be taken down river...
Federal Shipbuilding is busy on two mystery destroyers of 2,100 tons. One is reported to have super-high-pressure steam boilers; the other diesel-electric drive, new wrinkles...
These June nights, when the drawn-out whistle of the steam engine streaking across Kansas sets the farmer's dog a-barking, or when valley dwellers hear her coming round the mountain with brakes on after the two-engined chuff up the Continental Divide, like as not the long string of cars will be sleepers-Pullmans full of soldiers, destination and route secret...