Word: secondly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boat station was Starboard 5. ... Near this boat station there was a companionway which leads over No. 3 hatch, and it was here that the second torpedo had struck us. The boards covering this hatch had been blown off by the force of the explosion, and there was a deep yawning hole...
...Boys. Billy and Elizabeth Hull had five sons. First was Orestes, a smart boy who "made a doctor" and went to Louisiana where he died young "of a lock of the bowels." Second was Sanadius Selwin, who was a "Gamblin' Hull," wasted $30,000 of his pappy's money failing in business. Cordell was the third son by 7 months, and Cord became the favorite. Fourth was Wyoming Hull, who was known all his life as the "general"; sick as a. baby, he remained childish, wore Cord's old clothes, wandered about Carthage begging a quarter...
Life span of guns charged to fire 25 miles or better is about three seconds, net. That is, they can fire perhaps 50 times before their rifled steel linings are so scored by hot, high-pressure gases in the split-second of explosion that they become inaccurate. Such guns must be cooled between shots or their barrels, superheated, will sag at the muzzle. Between shots, too, their gunners must calculate (from a pressure gauge communicating with the bore) how much to add to the charge to allow for progressive scoring and keep up the range...
...high as a ten-story building, her barrel 120 feet long. Her shells weighed 264 lbs. and traveled nearly one mile a second. They rose at an angle of 50°, hit the stratosphere ten miles up, traveled through its rarefied atmosphere to a height of 24 miles before starting down. The earth's rotation had to be calculated in elevating (for range) and laying (for deflection) Big Bertha, for as the earth turned Paris toward the shells she lofted, it tended to make Bertha overshoot. At best her aim could not be relied on within a target area...
...second half U. S. C. put Tennessee on the spot again by kicking out of bounds at the one-yard line. Tennessee's Butler, standing behind his goal line, gambled desperately on a pass, made it good, and the Volunteers got out to their 19. They came suddenly to life and their backs pitched arrowy passes-to the U. S. C. 33, to the 26, to the 19. There Tennessee fumbled. The U. S. C. powerhouse got going again, put over another touchdown. Score: Southern California 14, Tennessee 0. Power had upset precision...