Word: stem
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Charles Edison was never very happy either as Assistant Secretary or Secretary of the Navy. Mountains of paper work vexed and baffled him. So, occasionally, did admirals who were his nominal subordinates. They buffeted him from stem to stern when he proposed to tighten the Navy's loose organization, bucked like destroyers in a gale when he partially reorganized the shore bureaus to handle the enormous construction job now under way. And they practically keelhauled him (unofficially) when he came back from inspecting the Pacific Fleet last spring with word that "aircraft have a temporary advantage over ships...
...which is sprayed gunite (cement shot from guns)-the whole only 2¼-in. thick. Architect Wright's plan for the Johnson Wax plant at Racine, Wis. in 1938 similarly set the Wisconsin State Industrial Commission on its ear. Its columns were neither pillars nor posts but tall stem forms, tapering from a concrete disk 20 ft. in diameter at the top to a shaft 8 in. thick at the floor. By ordinary reckoning, these slenderizing pencils would take about two tons weight each where they were called on to support twelve. In an official test the column held...
Italian commanders were said to be rushing reinforcements into mountain positions in an effort to stem the Greek drive which has opened up the main read to Tirana, capital of Albania...
...idea of socialism is much deeper founded than we wish to believe, and therefore no power now will stem the avalanche." ^ German reaction to U-boat successes is falsified in the British press. "Actually the good German people do not shout with joy or say 'That's good news.' What they say is 'Oh, those poor British people, think of their families.' " >-"Let us avoid getting into tight corners and above all quit experimenting and trying to pull ourselves by our bootstraps with anesthetic, money-wasting measures, only to get from one hole into...
...newly discovered ox possesses extremely primitive physical features which place the animal close to the ancient ancestral line of modern domestic cattle and as a form which probably branched off the main cattle family stem, before the bison, yak, zebu, gaur, and bantin about ten million years back, in the middle pliocene period...