Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ship weighed anchor and carried the British Heir Apparent to the land which might, had there been no American Revolution, have been his Royal father's greatest dominion...
...June 21, 1919, the German fleet lay at anchor in Scapa Flow. Its pride had long since been broken and it lay captive with only skeleton crews of Germans aboard. In accordance with a preconcerted plan, the Germans opened the sea cocks, let their High Seas Fleet sink to the bottom. There were some 74 ships at anchor at the time and many of them sank before the British could beach them...
Natives of Cherbourg, France, are accustomed to seeing a towering ocean liner anchor off their low-lying shore. Familiar to them are the fussy tenders that cuddle under the great ship's flanks to receive issuing streams of scurrying...
Since his entrance into college in the fall of 1921, Dunker has made for himself a record of remarkable athletic and scholastic achievement. In his Freshman year, in addition to playing on the 1925 football team, he captained his Freshman relay team, on which he starred as anchor man throughout the season; and in the spring of 1922 he was also elected captain of the Freshman track team on which he proved a consistent point-scorer in the shotput...
Aside from Carpenter's phenomenal discus heave, the remainder of the meet was run off much as had been predicted Castleman. Virginia's star sprinter, won both the 100 and 220-yard dashes according to predictions. Bohaunon, the dazzling anchor man on Virginia's championship one-mile relay team at the Penn Relays last week, sprinted his way in the SSO to a 51 second victory over Allen of Harvard on a heavy track. In the remaining events, the Crimson's superior all round ability gave them 10 first places and a majority of the seconds and thirds...