Word: steep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compass in the nose (see cut), keep the bomb on its course. A small windmill in the nose regulates the range. Operating a counter as it turns, the wind mill acts as a timing device: at the set time it jams the controls and throws the bomb into a steep dive at its target. To check on accuracy, wind drift, etc., the Nazis equipped every tenth bomb with a radio signal (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
...separate cars, the Churchills and the Roosevelts motored up the steep hills to Quebec's Citadel, an ancient fortress, surrounded by a deep moat, its entrance barred with iron chains the width of a man's forearm...
Once more the Reds beat the drums in front of East Prussia. From the banks of the narrow Scheschuppa River on the border, a Red Fleet correspondent wrote: "Before us stretches Germany. Beyond this insignificant river is a steep bank, then fields with clover, brush, clumps of trees surrounded by wire and trenches, big barns with tile roofs, the red and pastel-colored roofs of houses. . . . We know that the earth beyond the Scheschuppa River will take a lot of our blood, but we know that without this blood humanity can never find peace...
...Find. Geologists first stumbled on traces of iron around Steep Rock Lake, 40 miles north of the Minnesota border, in 1891. In the early 1900s, Harvard Geologist H. L. Smyth decided the main deposit might be under the lake itself. In 1930, Julian G. Cross, an Ontario prospector, poked around the site, came away sure he had something...
Chief problem: to drain Steep Rock Lake, which is fed by the Seine River. It was first necessary to lower the level of nearby Finlayson Lake 57 ft., then divert the Seine into it. Dams were built, canals and tunnels cut. Once the Seine was diverted, 14 mammoth barge-mounted pumps began sucking 125 billion gallons of water out of Steep Rock Lake itself...