Word: birde
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard Freshman fencers will be Rowley, Daniels, Davis, Cox, Fulmer, and Sophos in foils; Ashmead, Bird, and Daniels in epee. Brown will have Ballon, Mayer, Jennings in foils; Steele and Mayer in epee...
...this pioneering power company reported a profit of $2,500,000 for 1934, a slight increase over the year before. At the same time President Samuel Ferguson was elected board chairman, succeeding the late Samuel G. Dunham, the founder's brother. Upped to the presidency was Viggo E. Bird, a Danish-born engineer who has been a vice president for years...
...world. Gunboats were ordered away, ships were afraid to stop. When the fort physician died Dr. Mudd volunteered his services. Day & night in a hospital where the thermometer stood at 104 he worked heroically among delirious, vomiting patients. Men died by the score and were hastily dumped on nearby Bird Key. "No more respect is shown the dead," wrote Dr. Mudd, "than to the putrid remains of a dead...
...Tortugas there now lives permanently only the lighthouse crew at Loggerhead Key. The Carnegie Marine Biological Station on Loggerhead is occupied about three months of the year. During bird-breeding season a keeper or two go out to Bird Key. Fort Jefferson is a deserted ruin. The Navy took it over during the Spanish-American War, spent $800,000 on a coaling station and other improvements, abandoned it. Since then Cuban and U. S. fishermen have carried away everything of value. The moat and some of the brickwork are intact but the rest is a shambles of stripped roofs, crumbled...
...revolves 100 times per minute and moves horizontally one inch per minute. A tiny beam of light, trained on the picture at a 45 degree angle, is reflected to a "light valve." Inside the valve is a shutter which vibrates 2,400 times per second-faster than a humming bird's wings. The reflected beam sends the lights & shadows of the picture through the shutter to a conventional photo-electric cell ("electric eye")- There the image is translated into electric impulses which flash over the wires-10.000 mi., if desired-to the receiving machine. The receiver reverses the process...