Word: bay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...official circles dishonorable discharge was said to be the worst fate possible in store for the sleepers. It was recalled, however, that a marine of the White Court detail was court-martialed in June for refusing to bathe in the untepid bay near White Court, that his ablutions are now performed in the Navy Prison at Charleston, Mass...
...Rinehart places herself at the center of consciousness of a scholarly professor who is deeply agitated by what seem to be the posthumous performances of his late asthmatic, or strangled, uncle. Between seances, telepathic messages, furniture upheavals and the receipt of "quaint ciphers, he (she) writes a diary. Hounds bay, doors crash, mysterious lights shine on headlands and creep under beds. Uncle's ghost marches in the alumni parade, sheep are slaughtered, four people die quite violently. A very devil of an uncle, yet you and the professor can never be sure it is he who is responsible, let alone...
...other Cooper, Engineer Dexter P., sits on a forest of blue prints, surrounded by draftsmen and tidewater inspectors, in an office on Campobello Island near the head of the Bay of Fundy. About the island and up into bottlenecked bays, the fabulous tides of Fundy swirl in and out unceasingly, marking a difference of 27 feet between flood...
...Cooper plan transcends such feeble efforts as far as the locomotive outclassed the wheelbarrow. It calls for great sea walls, with water gates to shut the 100 sq. mi. of Passamaquoddy Bay into an upper pool. Other walls would immure Cobscook, the lower bay, 50 sq. mi. more. Across the inlet between the two pools thus formed, from Eastport* (island) to the Maine mainland, a dam and power house would be built. Operation would be as follows: on a rising tide, the gates to the upper pool would be opened to admit the sea. At flood, the gates would close...
...have found one in Flagler Fjord. They left some fuel and oil, flew back to camp for more, returned and found a grinding field of ice had taken possession. More hunting in and out of that dangerous, glacier-hung shore and they put down another depot in Sawyer Bay. Same result. After deciding to give up the Cape Hubbard flight and turn to other objectives of the expedition...