Word: vessel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good ship Atlantis, an oceanographic research vessel, was back in Woods Hole, Mass, last week, after two months of seagoing mountaineering. Purpose of the voyage: to study the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the submerged mountain range that divides the Atlantic Ocean-from Iceland almost to Antarctica. The range breaks the surface at only a few points (the Azores, Ascension Island, Tristan da Cunha). But if the Atlantic were drained dry, it would be one of the world's most spectacular ranges, with several peaks 20,000 feet above the ocean floor...
...After lunch there, as we passed the harbor, we saw all the ships gaily hung with bunting. We inquired what was happening and were told that there would be a procession out to sea; so we got into a vessel and went along. As we returned, we saw the people on the piers first jeering, then cheering, and the fishermen broke into a song to the Madonna. I asked a fisherman, 'What's going on now?' and he explained that Fiumicino's new clock had just been inaugurated and that they had had 'a terrible...
Hopeful Future. "The heart of the fast reactor," the report explains, "is a small vessel"; but apparently the vessel must be surrounded by a good deal of auxiliary apparatus. "Since the heat is generated in a relatively small region, special cooling provisions are required to prevent overheating of the center of the reactor...
...inauguration was divided into two parts: a civil ceremony on land, and a religious one at sea. At the first, Rocchi was to unveil the clock, which was wrapped in sackcloth. At the second, the statue of the Virgin Mary would be taken out to sea in a fishing vessel and Father Bernardoni would throw a wreath upon the waves...
Forty-three oarsmen of the single vessel variety have entered the six-class competition for the H.A.A. summer sculling medals, Bill Dowd, clerk of course, disclosed last night, in announcing next week's schedule of trial heats and finals immediately after the entry deadline of 6 o'clock yesterday...