Word: monstering
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...been jolted by the dispute over the sale of five vessels to the Dollars. Second, a group of professional tonnage-lords was meeting in private in Manhattan (see below). Third, the country, having few other matters of immediate importance to consider, might lend an ear to his troubles-a monster armada of idle ships. So T. V. O'C. spoke. His plan: The U. S. Treasury should pay a bonus of $20 per month to every American who works on a ship which is bought by a U. S. firm from the Government and which is used in foreign...
Bingham. Into Miami cruised the black Pawnee, sleek yacht of Henry Payne Bingham of Manhattan. On her decks were bucket-mouthed, serpentine fish, a sea-cow, glass sponges, monster iguanas (lizards) from Swan Island (300 miles south of Cuba), giant shrimps with pincers like lobsters. The Pawnee had been seeking the rhynodontypicus, a species of leviathan taken near Swan Island in 1912. Among the tales the mariners told was that of a .vast elemental shape the Negroes called "Sapodilla Tom," which surged up beneath the boat, lifted his dorsal and was gone. Off the coast of Honduras, "a great winged...
...christening party proceeded to lunch with the shipbuilders, where speeches were made telling how the U. S. S. Saratoga could cross the Atlantic in four days, could supply electric current for a huge city, cost $45,000,000, will carry 72 planes, is an unprecedented monster (TIME...
...other hand the average undergraduate brought face to face with a great machinery that tends to impose a certain orthodoxy upon his fields of mental activity, so classify and label him, to assign a pigeon-hole as the area of his progress, naturally cries "Away with the monster. Paternalism and nothing else is the cause of my stagnation...
...monster is 850.ft. long; will have a speed of 33 knots; is powered by steam turbines capable of generating 180,000 horsepower (nearly equal to half the entire horsepower of the Navy in 1898) ; is armed with a main battery of eight 8-inch guns; will be able to carry 72 combat, observation and bombing planes...