Word: sparsely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soapy combers of the Gulf Stream lunge across the Atlantic carrying with them a clutter of spars, smashed planks, crates, broken chairs, two or three stove-in lifeboats with keels to the sun.
The exploits that made him the American counterpart of Francis Drake reached their heights in the moonlight encounter between his Bon Homme Richard and the British ship-of-war Serapis; an encounter which began when the British captain, Pearson, cried: " 'What ship is that?' From the Richard came...
When dirty weather gathers in this book, as it does continually, the seas thunder, spurt, hurl, burst, cascade, career and cannonade. Poops lurch, hatches groan, bulwarks drown, spars shiver, tumults surge, canvas flogs, human limpets cling to wreckage with bleeding nails, battered limbs, frozen hands, grim resolve. It is a...
The airplane incorporates many unique features of construction. It is built almost entirely of metal, which is rapidly superseding wood in the construction of aircraft. Each wing, instead of having two main strength members known as " spars," has a number of such spars which divide up the load between them...