Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where Johnson's Wax makes its home) offered to let Douglas use his office for a waxing bee. Few days later, Washington newsmen and TV crews crammed into Proxmire's office to watch a high-speed floor-waxing machine tow the two Senators around the room like water skiers. It all proved, claimed Proxmire breathlessly, that the floors were really nonslip (although his receptionist takes no chances, keeps a pair of sneakers in her desk drawer...
Shortly after Sir Malcolm Campbell died in 1948, his son Donald learned that a U.S. sportsman was preparing an assault on Sir Malcolm's world water-speed record of 141.74 m.p.h. "By God, they won't have that record," vowed Donald, "not without a fight they won't have...
Then 27, Donald Campbell was not well prepared to make a fight of it ("I'd never traveled at more than 70 m.p.h. on water, and not much more on land"). But he learned. The U.S.'s Stanley Sayres duly broke Sir Malcolm's record in 1950. but by T955 Donald had it back in the family. In his jet-powered Bluebird II, he roared up and down the course on England's Lake Ullswater at an average speed of 202.32 m.p.h...
Primary piece of equipment used to combat the fire was a high pressure fog system which pumped water under 800 pounds pressure. The two ladder trucks were in order to open skylights...
Baxter, author of a research paper on the legal problems of the Suez Canal and other international water ways, has been a member of the Law School Faculty since...