Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work done on the track during the next two months will be very light. Precaution will be taken not to develop any strained muscles, one of the purposes of this early training being to bring the athlete gradually into a hardened condition after a summer of beach chairs and porch swings...
...duty, it would be foolish to bring the names of countless innocent Hawaiians, Puerto Ricans, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and Stanford girls by mentioning the army. From the army one passes in review, to the hula in which one is told to watch the hands. The hands, the Waikiki beach boys claim, flashing their teeth in a smile, are very important...
...return to Chase and Hutchins, Arriving in San Francisco, they boarded the "Colorado" and were soon headed in the direction of the Hawaiian Islands. On one of their off afternoons at the islands, the boys were basking on the sands of Waikiki beach. A newsboy appeared, shouting the fact that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were lost. Chase and Hutchins were sorry, but they went right on basking, little realizing what was to happen...
...solved the mystery of Wake's anchor and uncovered a sea story as epic as the voyage of Captain Bligh of the Bounty. As builder and first airport manager at Wake, Colonel Bicknell discovered the anchor imbedded upright in the coral reef mile-and-a-half down the beach, moved it to its present position. A partially obliterated date and three letters at the tail end of a word were its only markings. When he was transferred to Honolulu he continued his quest, by chance finding the answer in the blurred, weather-stained pages of a magazine published almost...
...fuss. Before he left, he said, he had cached the Speck tuna in the Feigenspan ice plant. Forthwith, he produced the smallest tuna, frozen into a 300 lb. block of ice. However, the whole situation was altered few days later when Francis J. Lupton caught a 24-ouncer off Beach Haven...