Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since radio does not work well under water, the bathyscaphe will use a shortwave sound device lent by the British Admiralty, which developed it for communication between submarines...
...engine (from a Lockheed P-38) under her hatch and a converted Army pilot in her cockpit, she had averaged 54.88 m.p.h. Curly-headed Driver Danny Foster finished after being temporarily deafened by his engine, but not bleeding at nose & mouth, as drivers sometimes do after a bumpy, rough-water race...
...their thunderous noise, the finely tuned machines soon began to show signs of fallibility. Once around the three-mile course and slightly in the lead, Tempo VI hit a floating obstacle in the rough water, ripping the fragile skin off its starboard front sponson; Lombardo had to slow up to prevent shipping too much water. Notre Dame, the 1937 Gold Cup winner, went on to win the first heat, then had engine trouble and missed the second entirely. Albin Fallon's Miss Great Lakes had engine trouble, fell behind; three other boats dropped out altogether...
...biggest hope is still fluorine in drinking water, which seems to fortify children's growing teeth against decay. The delegates heard that some 26 U.S. communities are now carrying on long-range experiments with fluorinated water, and that results so far are promising. Some impatient delegates, believing that there has been experimenting enough, proposed that all the nation's drinking water be fluorinated without further delay. But the U.S. Public Health Service cautioned that investigators were not yet sure that the fluorine doses under study were safe...
...maintained a "school of eager researchers [who] studied . . . Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, the symbolism of the suppression of the harp in Ulster, and the occult significance of Gothic pinnacles and top-hats at Eton." Hitler himself sometimes rose from his "modest supper of vegetable pie and distilled water to prance upon the table and identify himself with the great conquerors of the past...