Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring. Pastula sang softly until his throat became too parched. Dixon, impatient, worried but cheerfully profane, decided to head for islands in the south. He drew a chart on a piece of canvas. With the salvaged line of rope and a life jacket, he rigged up a sea anchor which steadied the bobbing raft when winds were contrary...
...specialties is given by such salient facts as those showing that he has tied the world's record in the 100 yard free style at 51 seconds, swum the 220 in two minutes and nine seconds, which is excellent time in any man's league, and has been anchor man on a 400 yard relay team which is expected to break the world's record in the Eastern Intercollegiates, if not before...
...When three torpedoes in 50 seconds finished off the Norwegian freighter Blink, 23 men got into a power-driven lifeboat. Only six reached shore alive. The first night they dragged a sea anchor, hoping to stay within sight of other survivors. In the morning none was visible and they tried to start the engine. It balked. They raised a sail; a gust of wind upset the boat and they lost all food, all drinking water, the oars and one man. They righted the boat and got back...
Vice Premier Admiral Jean Franqois Darlan announced last week that the 26,500-ton battleship Dunkerque had put into the French Mediterranean naval base of Toulon under her own power. Even after 18 months of repair work at Oran, where she was blasted at anchor by the British Fleet (TIME, Sept. 16, 1940), the Dunkerque is still too battered for active service. But Nazi Germany knows, as do Vichyfrance and the U.S., that eleven French cruisers are in European or African waters, handy for immediate action, that the Dunkerque's sister ship Strasbourg is fit & ready, that the balance...
Probably the most thrilling event of the night was the final relay, in which. "Big John" Eusden, swimming the anchor leg, showed grit, speed and stamina in nosing out Princeton's Frank Masland. Previous to this race, Eusden had taken a second and third place in the 50 and 100 yard free styles respectively...