Word: bays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days, with their "contemporaneous ancestor" among them, Scout Leaders made plans for the coming year. New officials, men of prominence, were elected: Walter W. Head of Omaha, President (succeeding Milton A. McRae of Detroit); Mortimer L. Schiff of Oyster Bay, Vice President, also Milton A. McRae; George D. Pratt, Treasurer; Daniel Carter Beard, National Scout Commissioner (re-elected). The honorary officers include Calvin Coolidge, President, and Vice Presidents William H. Taft, William G. McAdoo, Colin H. Livingstone...
...throughout Europe than his elder brother, the royal heir, his dramatic productions having been received with enthusiasm that was by no means merely royalty's perfunctory due. Prince Gustaf, a quiet man, is none the less accomplished. His archeological work has been on the site of ancient Asine (Bay of Messenia, Greece). His music is in his own vocal cords. His athletic interests and abilities were demonstrated by his work on the Swedish Olympic Committee, and last winter when he plunged into a Stockholm canal and rescued a drowning U. S. jack-tar (TIME, Feb. 15). His religious militancy...
...hangar at Lakehurst, N. J. Sniffs of the wind augured well for several days aloft. The motors roared and rumbled, the huge celestial torpedo pushed up for her first extended trip since last July. Heading southeast, Captain George W. Steele Jr. guided her out over Barnegat Bay, then down to Atlantic City and to Cape May through bumpy air seas. Over Barnegat Lighthouse some internal wires had snapped; a waterline had burst, from one of the steam-condensers (to recover water from a motor's cooling jacket). Back put the Los Angeles, over Philadelphia, Camden, Bristol?back to the snug...
Byrd. Off the frozen coast of Spitzbergen, with a blizzard raging, came Commander Richard E. Byrd with his U. S. comrades and airplanes aboard the Chantier. They were blocked from Kings Bay's one pier by the Norwegian gunboat Heimdal (she was coaling), and had to cast anchor half a mile offshore. Making a raft out of heavy planking and four lifeboats, they labored all one night at the ticklish task of hoisting from the hold delicate wings and fuselages and towing them in on the raft. The Hobby, Amundsen's 1925 baseship chartered this year by Byrd...
Amundsen. While their airship Norge gathered her strength at Leningrad for the hop from Europe to Spitzbergen, Explorers Amundsen and Ellsworth disembarked from their steamer in ice-choked Kings Bay and set about unloading a cargo of hydrogen gas, food, and other materials. A mooring mast was standing, and a hangar going up, to receive the Norge, which was expected very shortly with her crew of 16 men and one terrier-mascot...