Word: ballast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gilbert Stevenson, Yale '36, of Polham, New York, one of the associate engineers in the steam automobile enterprise, which has its headquarters in Newton, guided the new experimental, two-cylinder model through thick Cambridge traffic with four Harvard men hanging on as ballast...
...library scissors in his teeth, attempted to climb to a ring five feet above his head to saw free some more of the bags. Numb from the cold and soggy with rain, he tangled in the drooping anchor line, dropped his 12-lb. Bell & Howell camera. Loss of this ballast bobbed him upward and onward again...
Peace especially visited the seven miles of tunnels, 140 miles of costly, well-constructed roadbed through the nine dark ridges of the Alleghenies. Grass overgrew "South Penn" embankments, saplings pushed their way through its rock ballast and water seeped higher and higher over the rubble of the tunnels. For half a century nothing stirred in those dark caverns except some albino, sightless trout which according to Pennsylvania Highway Planning Division's Director Kaulfuss "mysteriously developed in these unnatural, impounded waters...
Since the first year contestants for the Hague Cup have been obliged to use regulation-size boats, with a minimum length of 25 ft. 11 in., minimum weight including crew and ballast of 5,500 lb. Publicity-conscious shipping lines have taken to building special boats for the race, selecting crews by competition, giving them a month off work to train. Only contestants last week were the crews of Standard Oil Co. of N. J.'s W. C. Teagle and the Italian Line's Conte di Savoia, each of which had two legs...
...Chandler Hovey and ordered a new one, yachtsmen were well aware that he and his famed designer, W. Starling Burgess, must have good reason to expect the new boat to be a marked improvement. Rainbow's main fault was bad balance which kept her owner busy experimenting with ballast in 1934, but correcting this was not the only aim of the new venture. Trend in America's Cup boats since 1930 has been to build up to the limit of waterline length allowed by Class J specifications. When Rainbow (82 ft.) proved faster than Vanderbilt...