Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metal mast, painted white, sailors called it the "bean blower" and scornfully predicted that it would collapse in the first puff. It is made in two layers held together by 100,000 rivets. It is much lighter and stronger than wood. For firmness, it was stepped in a water-tight steel tub full of molten metal-"Wood's metal" (tin, lead, and bismuth) which melts at 120°. It is wedged at the deck with hard rubber...
...Nova Scotia so as not to lose sight of land, they flew beneath lowhanging rain clouds: ". . . We flew on, skirting a precipice. Suddenly there loomed up out of the mist another precipice on our port side. We were caught between the steep banks of a river. . . . It was a tight place. Bellonte was at the controls and he had to think fast. Fortunately, having flown thousands of miles, the ship was light. Bellonte gave her the gas and shot upward...
...kept in bottles, for two or three weeks, handled daily. When the time comes to train a performer, the end of a thin gold wire 2 in. long is fastened collar-fashion about its neck. This collar must be loose enough to allow the flea to eat, but tight enough so it cannot jump through. When fleas are not performing they are kept in boxes with their feet entangled in cotton. Fleamen say they can tell a flea's possibilities for the stage by the way it holds its six legs. A flea which always grasps one leg with...
Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio, brand-new chairman of the Republican National Committee, last week tied the G. O. P. up tight to Prohibition. Meanwhile the Democratic party seemed to grow wetter and wetter...
...White Plains, N. Y., last week a grand jury indicted Westchester Airport Corp. of Armonk, N. Y., as a public nuisance, after months of complaint by residents near the field that dust filled their homes, forced them to keep windows shut tight even in hot weather. Authorities lately closed Atlantic Airways' field near Scarsdale, also upon complaints of residents...