Word: truss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whence the elevated highway turns north to Randalls Island. There occurs the Y's split, one arm reaching across the Harlem River on the world's biggest (but not heaviest) lift bridge to Manhattan, the other crossing The Bronx Kills to the mainland by means of three truss spans...
...took police three hours to lasso and truss Sergeant Finnegan. By that time surrounding schools had sent 25 busloads of school children to learn about sea lions, and a sea lion expert had pointed out that Sergeant Finnegan was a female. She was renamed Mrs. Finnegan or Judy O'Grady. A U. S. geodetic survey truck took Mrs. Finnegan on a triumphal ride across the State toward the Pacific, stopping at gas stations to hose and exhibit her. When she was dumped onto the beach at Nelscott, she again took an unconventional line in refusing to go into...