Word: bays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bay Ridge, N. J., Australia mastered China in the American Zone play, qualified to meet Mexico at Baltimore in the semifinals...
George Wharton Pepper, senior U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania: " Vacationing, I sailed for Frenchman's Bay, Me., on the 100-foot schooner of Frank B. Noyes, President of the Associated Press. Newspapers featured me as having shipped before the mast. Said I: 'I'm working my way as a deckhand, trimming sails and taking my turn at the wheel like an old hand. That's my idea of a vacation...
...steamer Pemaquid made its way across the waters of Penobscot Bay and came to land. John William Davis disembarked. On the dock waiting for him was Charles Dana Gibson, his host. The creator of the Gibson Girl, the publisher of Life, was there despite his physician's orders. A recent illness had required him to guard his health closely, but friendship and hospitality had temporarily overruled the art of healing...
...contract to build the first Government submarine. A rival won the award, but in 1897 Mr. Lake launched the Argonaut, first submersible to operate successfully in the open sea. Speaking on the development of the submarine, he once said : "My first trip was in the Argonaut down Chesapeake Bay. Night was coming on and we de cided to come to the surface...
High over the Bay of Bengal sped a lone seaplane, bound for the coast of Burma. Looking down on the watery waste, the pilot beheld three other seaplanes, westbound. The man above was Major A. Stuart MacLaren, British Air Force; the planes below bore Lieutenants Smith, Wade and Nelson, of the U. S. A. It was the meeting of history's first round-the-globe air-racers, but the participants did not stop to exchange greetings...