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Word: scaffolding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vast curiosity about the world. Born & bred in Norway, he quarrels with his crusty stepfather and flees to England-just in time to run slap into Robin Hood and his merry men and get himself captured by that fine old favorite, the Sheriff of Nottingham. Saved from the scaffold by a pious knight, Andres gets shipped off to the Holy Land, where the air is so thick with plots and subterfuge it can be cut with a Damascus blade. And there, jam-bang in the middle of it all, awaiting her true knight, sits the "only one who mattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Crusades, Without U.N. | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...might be needed to testify in the trial of Bombmaker Genereux Ruest, who has been ordered hanged March 16. Guay was not called, however. At midnight, all hope gone, Guay heard a special Mass, then, repeating the chaplain's prayers in a loud voice, walked unassisted to the scaffold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Fame, of a Sort | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

...rotating walls. Electric power, stepped up by generators, operates the instrument and moves the walls along their built in track. Since all the operations can be directed by a set of pushbuttons attached to a lengthy cable, a single person can control all the machinery, including the moving observer scaffold, from anywhere in the room. Two or three times a year, the 1600-pound lens gets a cleaning, and is re-silvered. Because of its size it cannot be aluminum coated--there is no tank in this part of the country big enough...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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