Word: armorer
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...build an ironclad war vessel in 90 days to cope with the dreaded ironclad Merrimac with which the Confederates hoped to destroy the shipping of the North. In constructing the Monitor, Captain Ericsson invented the turret and its mechanism, and more than 40 patentable ideas which made this armored vessel the precursor of the modern battleship?and all these inventions he presented to the Government for its use without charge. He made for use in this man-of-war the first forged projectile, which he had demonstrated at the proving grounds would penetrate the armor of the Merrimac...
...occasion is an exhibition of bullet-proof vests which has been manufactured by the American Armor Company for the benefit of the Cambridge police. The latter, sticking to the old maxim that "seeing is believing", have, it appears, not yet been sufficiently convinced of the efficacy of the new protective shirts...
...this was the same. But Valentine wore no medieval armor last week in London. He wore instead the uniform of the Royal Air Force. There were laborers in 1926 overalls, and five-pound notes slapped out by Mephistonheles. And in the community festivities men and girls were strangely alike, wore tennis flannels, plus fours and shingled bobs...
...appears that both sides may be accused of flippancy incident to over-confidence. At any rate, the epic conclusion of this cultural conundrum conning hangs uneasily in the balance; while Richard Coeur de Lion rattles his armor in his tomb...
...must be clear to Mr. Duane that he cannot go on forever this way, Pretty soon the sneering darts of his friends will no longer be turned by this new armor. He can fall back upon figures for the profession--law, medicine, education, even business, then upon literature, although best not in the presence of graduates of Yale. And so on, but the newness of his defence will rapidly wear away before the pertinacity of the William and Mary gag and the story of the Harvard man on the crew who rowed number three and knew every...