Word: vessel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldier's son saw service on a British cruiser, served on an escort vessel in North Atlantic convoy early in World War I, stayed on while the Canadian Navy went back to a peacetime starvation basis...
...mushrooming U.S. merchant marine (50 million tons in 1944) is about to add a new and useful type of vessel-a small (4,000 ton), fast (12 knot), and economical (diesel-powered) freighter...
...take you all the way in because we've got to get back out here safely and get some more men in there quick. But I'll let you out where you can wade in." The men crouched low. The little vessel was loaded with silent prayers...
...autojector, a relatively simple machine, has a vessel (the "lung") in which blood is supplied with oxygen, a pump that circulates the oxygenated blood through the arteries, another pump that takes blood from the veins back to the "lung" for more oxygen. Two other dogs on whom the experiment was performed in 1939 are still alive and healthy. The autojector can also keep a dog's heart beating outside its body, has kept a decapitated dog's head alive for hours-the head cocked its ears at a noise and licked its chops when citric acid was smeared...
After his threatened return to the Nazis, Singer attempted, to escape to England by meeting a British cruiser in occupied Norway. When he missed the warship he was saved miraculously by a small Finnish vessel, which brought him to America...