Word: ballast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fully inflated, ready in every detail, the enormous ZR-1 was slowly released from its cradle by the escape of 8 tons of water from its ballast tanks. Three hundred marines and sailors guided the immense bag across the shed at Lakehurst, N. J., and anchored it at the entrance. Exhaustive engine tests will precede the trial flight on Sept. 1, a momentous date for American aviation...
...must go "down to the sea in ships" he did not put more gas in his motor boat, but piled the family in a rowboat for ballast and paddled up the river. This was the only water sport fully accredited by society. Bearded ball players, looking like the present House of David team, played the new game of baseball with leather-tipped gloves; and Paddy the Blacksmith stopped the ball with his unprotected chest. At home those more pressed for time did not take a "daily dozen" before the phonograph, but jumped up and down on a stiff spring board...
...artistically, the visit of the Moscow Art Theatre to New York in January. Boston has just felt the effects in the arrival of "He Who Gets Slapped". The Dramatic Club here, in selecting Andreyev's "The Life of Man", has acted with foresight. Even if it had no other ballast, it ought to sail smoothly to success on the rising tide of Russianism...
...operating trains, stations, and yards. Others are not real--they are merely borrowing from the future. For example, the repair work on way structures and equipment has been radically curtailed. Locomotive and car shops have been partly or wholly closed, and programs for renewals of ties, rails and ballast have been reduced to a fraction of the requirements. Obviously this is deferred maintenance, which must be made up at increased cost later on. And, besides, when normal traffic is resumed, the equipment, in a poor condition after war service, will be in an even greater state of inadequacy...