Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Walker, at a nearby beach, which had been favored by a Mayor Hylan boardwalk: "His speeches, like his beaches, are strewn with filth and garbage...
...Madame Sans Gene (TIME, Apr. 27) and acquired a count for husband. The new picture is a throwback. Miss Swanson spends most of her time wearing gowns and wandering among expensive stretches of scenery. Most of the latter are in expensive sections of New York and at Palm Beach. There is too little story to make it at all worth while...
...Colonel George Harvey, onetime outspoken ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was a weekend guest at White Court. An habitual flouter of customs, the Colonel was the first guest this summer who has preferred the sun and beach to attending church with the President. He smiled his excuses, said he had some letters to write...
...already making in Smith Sound. At every step, the Far North had rebuked the trespassers with unusually inclement weather. In July, ice-floes delayed the Bowdoin and Peary as far south as Battle Harbor, Labrador. When they reached Etah, they found that heavy winter storms had pared down the beach and piled it with boulders until it was impossible for the planes to take off from land. This cut down their cruising radius from 1,000 to 700 mi. and made necessary a food and fuel way-station betwen Etah and Axel-Heiberg Land. During the past fortnight the planes...
...cruising radius of the seaplanes out of Etah was cut down from 1,000 to 700 miles by the absence of a smooth stretch of beach in Etah harbor, the planes not being able to rise from the water with as heavy loads as they could lift from land. The round trip to Cape Hubbard and back is some 600 miles, leaving a margin of safety which Commander R. E. Byrd judged insufficient...