Word: warping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years after he became Tsar, Peter began to woo the sea. He learned on a Russian lake how to trim a sheet and ease a tiller. Later he went to Holland disguised as Peter Mikhailov, able-bodied seaman, there took a job in shipyards and learned how to warp gnarled oak into clean ship shape with his own hands. He learned navigation, piloting, naval tactics...
...lines, an 8,000,000-gallon (per day) water system, 60 miles of electric power lines, other huge essentials. The cantonment would be North Carolina's third largest city. By last week, 1,900 of the buildings had been finished (many with green lumber, which was bound to warp); 35,000 troops were quartered, and General Devers was sure that the whole thing would be completed before his deadline...
Because the jellylike body tissues tremble for a brief instant after every "blow" from the heart, after-vibrations warp part of the record. Hence Dr. Starr believes that his machine will never attain "highest precision." Nevertheless it is good enough to: 1) detect early, hitherto invisible cases of heart disease; 2) show the relation between high blood pressure and heart function; 3) differentiate between various types of heart disease...