Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floating power plant with which the company could supplement its electrical production in cases of emergency along the New Hampshire and Maine coast. Inspiration for this translation was, of course, the emergency use of the Navy's aircraft carrier Lexington as a power plant at Tacoma, Wash., last winter (TIME, Dec. 2). Central Maine Power officials decided it would be cheaper to float an auxiliary plant up and down the coast than to build, in a scattered territory fed entirely by water power, emergency steam plants for use in time of drought. The Jacona's power installation...
...Washington and the Navy were still in striking distance, but at the railroad bridge they were out of it and M. I. T. was trying wildly and uselessly to hold off Syracuse. Cornell was so far ahead now that the speed boats following behind moved up and let their wash rock the shells of the losing crews. Cornell was three lengths in front of Syracuse, eight in front of M. I. T., Columbia was behind California but ahead of Washington. Just before the finish line the Navy swamped in the wash of a Coast Guard cutter...
...Tenino, Wash., Mark O'Neil went fishing, caught one trout, dragged up one slot machine, in which he dropped a nickel. The machine did not work...
Author Genevieve Taggard, herself no mean poet, spent ten years getting the material for this book. Born in Waitsburg, Wash., she was educated at the University of California, was one of the founder-editors of The Measure: A Journal of Verse (1920-26). Biographer Taggard teaches English Literature at Mount Holyoke College. Other books: Words for the Chisel, Travelling Standing Still...
...Navy crew, beating off a hard but belated sprint by California in the last quarter-mile: a triangular race on Lake Carnegie, with Princeton three lengths in the wash...