Word: logged
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Archaeologists have long been suspicious of Columbus' log. After years of digging in graves and townsites of the Indians who then inhabited the Caribbean islands, they found only three tiny scraps of gold. It looked to them as if the "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" had sweetened the record to increase the attractiveness of the lands that he discovered. But last week Anthropologist Paul W. Barker of Maine's Gorham State Teachers College vindicated Columbus. In northern Haiti, he reported, he dug up two golden pendants just like those described by Columbus. Barker may even have found them...
...wires to transmit facsimile handwriting and sketches, 5) an automatic merchandiser that dispenses clothing, makes change from dollar bills, 6) an electronic system linking an airline's ticket offices throughout the U.S., 7) a cart for big-chef barbecues, 8; a plastic balloon building, 9) a 50-ton log stacker, 10) a tree crusher, 11) a transistor radio as small as a sugar cube, 12) a language-translating machine, 13) an underwater torpedo retriever, 14) a movable island crane, 15 ) a high-speed ditch digger, 16) a "pickle picker," 17) a hay pelletizer that makes cookies for cows...
...moving onto the floor. The chief Republican battler was Dwight Eisenhower, showing a combativeness that he had rarely displayed during his long struggle with Democratic majorities in Congress. He got the session off to a fighting start with a first-blow message calling upon Congress to break the "legislative log jam" and enact 21 measures that he had been calling for since last spring...
...head out of the cabin. Alongside was a freighter; people were sitting on the bridge, having evening drinks." Battered by huge waves, isolated by fog, Chichester slept only four to six hours a night, fought his loneliness by writing a 75,000-word diary, disdained a prescribed daily log (sample question: "Happy without feminine company?"). An expert navigator, Chichester accepted the risk of icebergs and storms, gambled on a northerly course along the comparatively short Great Circle route...
Thurs., July 28 Republican National Convention (CBS and ABC from 7:30 p.m., NBC from 8:30 p.m.). Barring a log jam of other business, the nominations and voting for the vice-presidential nominee, followed by the acceptances...