Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another Freshman who showed exceptional merit yesterday was E. B. Hall '28, anchor man on the nine-lap relay team, which also finished half a lap in the lead with a time...
...cursing brilliantly, burrowed down through the loams of illusion to the last dark rootlet of which words can tell. Psychologically, the book is a faultless exposition of the destructive approach to super-manhood. It would be restless reading for maiden aunts, a dangerous typhoon for souls without some windward anchor of faith or stupidity...
There are many kinds of anchorages; but it is safe to say that there is one place where a vessel will never anchor. Some SO miles from the coast of Japan, the Nipponese man-of-war Manchu dropped its sounding lead. The sounding wire rattled from the drum. Ten fathoms of it ran off into the depths, 20 fathoms, 30 fathoms, 100 fathoms. The drum rolled and rolled and rolled?a mile of wire sank into the briny deep. Two miles, three miles, four miles. Still no bottom. Five miles, and the drum still paid out the wire. Down, down...
...Yorktown, Va., the U. S. S. Arkansas stretched her gray length at anchor in the York River. Ashore, seven companies of Marines and blue-jackets stood by, while two artillery regiments from Fort Eustis saluted the flag with heavy guns. Three military bands struck up. The troops marched. Officials viewed and reviewed. Among the speechmakers were: Governor Trinkle of Virginia, Brigadier General William R. Smith (representing President Coolidge), George A. Elliott of the Delaware Historical Society, Brigadier General R. Allyn Lewis of the Old Guard of New York, Captain Charles Nungesser, famed French...
...fortnight ago the New York Herald-Tribune had a great "beat." The headline ran: "New Yorkers Drink Sumptuously on 17,000-Ton Floating Cafe at Anchor Fifteen Miles off Fire Island" (TIME, Aug. 25, NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Other newspapers echoed the story 24 hours later, being careful to credit the Herald-Tribune with its origin. Many readers of these other newspapers felt that the credit had been given in sincere admiration for so great a "beat,"-credit where credit...