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One firm—Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates—favored stabilizing the telescope by relaxing the backstays that stretch from the towers to the ground, installing extra support cables, and removing mass from the platform before starting restoration work.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 14, 2021
Immediately afterward, with her crew standing by to clew up the foretopsails, the backstays part and the We're Here's mainmast goes overside, carrying with it Manuel in a tangle of canvas, cable and running gear.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is a simple twin swept-spreader affair, which is strong enough not to require running backstays yet much lighter than an alloy alternative.
From Time Magazine Archive
But how many would gratify their taste at the expense of bringing the soil on their own backs, plodding on "backstays" over four miles of loose shingle?
From Faces and Places by Lucy, Henry W. (Henry William), Sir
But he had hardly started when, in going about in the strong wind, the main boom swung across so sharply that it struck the backstays and broke short off.
From Stories of Our Naval Heroes Every Child Can Read by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman
