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Tacoma Narrows Bridge
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Noun1.Tacoma Narrows Bridge - a suspension bridge across Puget Sound at Tacoma
Tacoma - a city in west central Washington on an arm of Puget Sound to the south of Seattle
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Joining them was the Glen Gower, sailing down from Scotland in a recordbreaking 22 hours to be called forever after, Galloping Gertie, earning immortality years later by bringing 1,235 men back from Dunkirk.
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