Word: beached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Casimir Pulaski, Revolutionary War hero, for whom he made a brief speech upholding ". . . the ideal of human society which makes conscience superior to brute strength." 2) The birthday of his wife, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, to whom he gave a watertight wrist watch to replace one she ruined at a beach last summer...
With this victory under their collective and individual belts, the Harvard football team would be set to go places this season, but a loss will probably mean that they're just another beach of nice boys trying...
Photographer Mingalone picked Old Orchard Beach, Me., for secret experiments in overhead photography from a cluster of 30 hydrogen-filled stratosphere balloons. He had successfully ground out several reels over the local country club golf course while a ground crew towed him from spot to spot when suddenly a stiff gust snapped the 200-ft. sash-weight cord anchor line...
...from the beginning, General Johnson still composes his pieces (in his Manhattan hotel suite, his Washington apartment or his Bethany Beach cottage) while pacing the floor. Faithful Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson sets the harangue down on paper, helps the General whip it into literary shape later. It is then wired to United Feature's Managing Editor William Laas, who deletes the outright libel and graver profanity, sends the copy smoking on its way to the presses...
...islands off the Massachusetts coast there is a lighthouse whose property is flanked by a long beach, part of which is government property and part private, the private section fronting land owned by wealthy and prominent inhabitants of the neighborhood. The owners of this exclusive property complained to the lighthouse keepers that a group of domestic servants and townspeople were using this beach and thus destroying their privacy. But the lighthouse keeper, saying that the language he had heard the property owners using on the beach did not entitle them either to exclusive beach rights or the respect...