Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Their thick skins are double, with oil compartments between to absorb the shock of depth charges, which must explode within 20 ft. of them to blast open their hides. They can crash dive in seconds, submerge to 100 fathoms (600 ft.), resist with safety the pressure of more than 19 tons per square foot. On the surface they can shoulder through the sea at 20 knots, driven by great 2,800-h.p. diesel engines. On their bows is a quick-firing gun big enough to enable them to engage Allied corvettes in surface action. U-boat production...
...large and I couldn't sit up and I commenced to throw up in the boat." His head felt "as large as a chair." Later he had hand tremors, a "pendulum pain" in the left side of his head, wrist weakness, stiff hands with palms that felt very thick. After treatment on Long Island he felt better, did not have his headaches so regularly. Said he: "As soon as I am healed, I propose to go back...
...been started. At about the same time antiaircraft bursts appeared over the airport, and from the sound of the explosions I judged the airport was being either bombed or shelled by heavy stuff. . . . There was a continual rumpus at the port; but by that time the smoke was so thick I could see very little...
...catalogue writers did not let them down. W. Atlee Burpee Co. had an Improved Super Snowball Cauliflower, a Tender Pod Bush Bean that would make a mummy drool: ". . . surpasses all others in quality, tenderness, succulence and flavor. . . . The pods are 4½ to 5 inches long, thick, round in cross section, smooth, deep dark green in color, curving slightly, with long and distinctively curved tips. . . ." Peter Henderson & Co. had a Coreless Carrot whose "beautiful appearance alone wins favor for it wherever grown. ... Its coreless, rich red-orange flesh possesses a sweet, melting tenderness that appeals even to those who otherwise...
...champion of younger men in government work, Eden himself no longer looks like an undergraduate or a prodigy. The grey streaks in his hair, the lines in his face, his thick-lensed spectacles mark a new maturity. He almost regrets his natural capacity for looking immaculate. There are too many other things worrying him and Britain...