Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coaching launches, the "John Harvard" and the "Veritas" drew up at the float of the Newell boathouse yesterday afternoon, completing a trip which started two weeks ago when the two boats left Greenport, Long Island. They were delayed until yesterday at Monument Beach by the rough water conditions in Massachusetts Bay caused by the recent storms...
...Graduate School of Education 15 scholarships, were awarded, as follows: F. A. Berger, of Daytona Beach, Fla.; G. D. Brock, of Institute, W. Va.; H. E. Frazey, of Hendersonville, N. C.; Austin Scholarships for Teachers. P. B. Diederich 1G.Ed., of Waterbury, Conn., J. R. Hobson, of Cambridge, Ohio; L. K. McNair '26, of Pittsfield; L. E. Stewart, of Virgin Island; W. A. Thomson, of Niles, Ohio; A. K. Tweedie, of Albany, N. Y.: Faculty Scholarships. L. K. McNair '26, of Pittsfield: Phi Delta Kappa Scholarship. O. R. Carlson '28, of Beverly; H. M. Lewis 1 G. Ed., of Claremont...
...golf club, fishing tackle or a valet. Work, not play, was ahead of them. Budgetman Dawes, in fine fettle, wore a brown striped suit, a brown hat. The smell of his pipe led all visitors directly to his cabin. That newspapers kept referring to his nephew, Rufus C. Beach, Chicago attorney now on the Dominican Commission, as "Rupert Peach" caused him vast amusement. Questions ("Did you convert Marshal Foch from cigarets to a pipe?" "Will you be the next ambassador to Great Britain?") he parried with a gruff "Nothing doing...
Risking everything to capture the city before relief arrived, "Sacristan" Iturbe sent an infantry charge along the beach to force the harbor fortifications. Again the rebels were beaten back by machine gun fire...
...this earthy naturalism of Potter Poor's work, timeless and styleless as so many lustrous beach pebbles, which constitutes its solid, enduring value and which has quietly made its creator his reputation. Acceptance by the Metropolitan Museum, profuse with classic pottery, has dignified a career as unceremonious and sincere as that of a medieval illuminator...