Word: stem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marine Marvel. Even to jaded voyagers, the Queen Mary was still a marvel of naval architecture. From her straight, businesslike stem to her bulging cruiser stern the Queen represents a blending of many ancient and modern arts. Her builders had to wrestle with the problem of constructing a hull of titan strength to withstand almost unimaginable strains as the seas pass under her 1,020 feet, lifting her first by the bow, then amidships, then astern. The propulsion engineers used the power of 50 locomotives to drive the four screws, each 20 feet across and weighing 35 tons, which...
...redoubtable Ike can breathe a little life into scholastic sterility; if he can stem the move toward a return to status-quo "education" (a kind of education for death); if he can further the idea of education for service to humanity: then more power to him, and scallions to his monastic-minded opponents...
...Their desert has indeed blossomed like the rose. Orchards, dairies and sugar-beet fields in green Utah valleys are a tribute to their skill at irrigation, and great stands of wheat prove the worth of their dry farming. Utah's 555,000 cattle and 1,646,000 sheep stem mostly from Mormon herds. Mormons built roads, farms, towns and temples across the West...
Basically, however, the average Briton's woes stem from his government's self-contradicting attempts to expand production and exports while, at the same time, saving dollars by not buying food or permitting some individual freedom of buying. Because Britain is overly sensitive of her debtor status she offers her workers intellectual incentives--promises that four or five sacrificing years will bring the long sought fruits. But the vital daily incentives, the extra meat, or new suit of clothes, are withheld...
Such britches-busting boasts have helped to make little Billy a big nuisance to a great many people. A Broadway wit once snarled: "Nobody would ever kidnap Billy Rose. Who would pay the ransom?" Billy has been cussed up & down the main stem as a cheapskate, a blowhard and a social climber who "truckles to celebrities and yells at waiters." More recently, he has been denounced by some of his detractors as a phony intellectual...