Word: opened
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...years Tacoma citizens dreamed of a bridge across the Narrows. It would cut out the old, slow ferry, bring the Navy Yard at Bremerton closer. It would help accomplish what Washingtonians talk of doing-open up the spectacular, thinly settled Olympic Peninsula. Last July Tacoma got its bridge-a slender, soaring suspension bridge,* rising 190 feet above the water, built in two years at a cost of $6,400,000 in Federal funds...
...enjoy it long. The Narrows bridge heaved like a hammock. Sometimes a car approaching would seem to drop clear out of sight with an undulation of the roadway. Yet the bridge was strong. Heavy winds failed to shake it; but when lighter, intermittent breezes swept in from the open Sound, it was agitated by a peculiar weaving, sinuous motion that its builder said looked like the movement of a snake under a rug. Some people got seasick at once when the bridge began to sway; some enjoyed the weird sensation, high above the water, with the wind howling...
...poisoning.) Helpers of the lethal gases are the sneeze, tear and vomiting gases. Used as harassing agents, they make men work in masks over long periods. Men who get a whiff of the harassing gases before they get on their masks, have to take them off, are then wide open to the killers that may follow...
Rain and terrain are wonderful allies. Bad weather and forests helped Finland. Good weather and open country betrayed Poland, the Lowlands, France. Through such mountains and such torrents as northwestern Greece possessed, last week there could be no such thing as Blitzkrieg...
...know Meier, persuaded him to settle in Spearfish. It was a small, attractive place, high in the Black Hills. It was on the Black Hills tourist route, which promised sizable audiences. Most important, the zealous Mr. Bett persuaded fellow townsmen to spend $28,000 for an open-air amphitheatre (to seat 7,000), with masses of evergreens and towering Lookout Mountain as a backdrop...