life preservers

  • 1life preserver — life preservers N COUNT A life preserver is something such as a life jacket, which helps you to float when you have fallen into deep water. [AM] …

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  • 2Life Savers™ — [Life Savers] small, hard US sweets/ candies which are round and have a hole in the middle. They are available in 25 different flavours and sold in tubes. They were invented in 1912 by Clarence Crane and the name refers to the fact that the white …

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  • 3life preserver — UK [ˈlaɪf prɪˌzɜː(r)və(r)] / US [ˈlaɪf prɪˌzɜrvər] noun [countable] Word forms life preserver : singular life preserver plural life preservers American a lifejacket …

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  • 4Life Savers{™} — small, hard US sweets/candies which are round and have a hole in the middle. They are available in 25 different flavours and sold in tubes. They were invented in 1912 by Clarence Crane and the name refers to the fact that the white rings look… …

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  • 5The Life of the World to Come — infobox Book | name = The Life of the World to Come title orig = translator = image caption = 1st edition cover author = Kage Baker illustrator = cover artist = Paul Youll country = United States language = English series = The Company genre =… …

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  • 6General Slocum — The General Slocum was a steamship launched in 1891. She caught fire and burned to the water line in New York s East River on June 15, 1904. More than 1,000 people died in the accident, making it New York City s worst loss of life disaster until… …

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  • 7Charles Goodyear — For the congressman, see Charles Goodyear (politician). For the businessman, see Chip Goodyear. Charles Goodyear Charles Goodyear, as illustrated in an 1891 Scientific American article Born December 29 …

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  • 8SS Morro Castle — The SS Morro Castle was a luxury cruise ship of the 1930s that was built for the Ward Line for runs between New York City and Havana, Cuba. The Morro Castle was named for the Morro Castle fortress that guards the entrance to Havana Bay.In the… …

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  • 9Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet — Steamboats at Colman Dock, Seattle, WA, circa 1912. Indianapolis is the large steamer on the right The Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet was a large number of private transportation companies running smaller passenger and freight boats on Puget Sound… …

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  • 10balsa — /bawl seuh, bahl /, n. 1. a tropical American tree, Ochroma pyramidale (lagopus), of the bombax family, yielding an exceedingly light wood used for life preservers, rafts, toy airplanes, etc. 2. a raft made of balsa wood. 3. any life raft. [1770… …

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