Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Honolulu for my surveillance of the military air fields, and walked nearly every day through Pearl City where I could readily survey the airstrip on Ford Island and battleship row in Pearl Harbor." It was all quite simple: "I made many observations on underwater obstructions, tides, beach gradients, and so forth, while on swimming expeditions...
...army of the Empress Maria Theresa, owned so many paintings that, in addition to his main gallery in Vienna, he had to set up sub-galleries in four other castles. The present prince's great-uncle added paintings by Filippino Lippi, Botticelli and Rembrandt Treasures by the Row. Today most of these paintings hang in storage in rows so close together that a person can barely squeeze through. Some paintings lie higgledy-piggledy on tables and shelves Bronze statues are strewn about, cloaked in spider webs. There are works by Jan Brueghel Lucas Van Leyden, Jan van de Velde...
After a two-month rise that temporarily heartened businessmen, manufacturers' orders turned about and dropped 4% in October, sending the backlog of unfilled orders to the lowest point in two years. Manufacturers' sales fell 1% in October for their sixth monthly decline in a row. What was even more disturbing to economists-and the chief cause of the orders slump-was that businessmen are still living off their inventories instead of reordering. In October, business inventories fell $400 million from September for their fourth straight decline...
Spaceman Wernher von Braun called the misfire "a little mishap" bravely predicted that the U.S. would still manage to orbit a manned capsule by the end of 1961. But Project Mercury's latest failure, third in a row, just about evaporated the last faint wisp of hope that the U.S. might put a man into space before Russia does...
...even out of power, Tizard was to with Lindemann once again before war ended. "This row, the second, climactic row," was over Lindemann's decision to push strategic bomb- Lindemann, now Lord Cherwell, in the Cabinet, sent out a paper gave impressive estimates, of the strategic bombing of low class housing would have...