Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...captive with only skeleton crews of Germans aboard. In accordance with a preconcerted plan, the Germans opened the sea cocks, let their High Seas Fleet sink to the bottom. There were some 74 ships at anchor at the time and many of them sank before the British could beach them...
...beach near Carrara, Italy, not far from where his body was washed ashore in July, 1822, a colossal monument will be erected to the poet Shelley. It is to be a figure of Prometheus, exceeding 180 feet in height, greater in size than the statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, represented as in Shel- ley's poem* unbound, bearing fire to man. The idea is further expanded by making the shaft, against which the figure stands, into a lighthouse which will throw its signal light far over the Tyrrhenian sea, whose treacherous waters were the poet...
...Beach, novelist: "I accepted the Honorary Chairmanship of the Alumni Committee on Athletics of my alma mater, Rollins College, at Winter Park, Fla. Rollins alumni of the early '90s remember me as an outstanding Rollins athlete, as Captain of the Rollins baseball team in 1896, my senior year...
While thousands of bathers disported themselves gaily on the sands and waters of Rockaway Beach, L. I., a foolhardy pilot flew low over their heads, performed hazardous stunts, created panic. Men cursed and shook angry fists; women shrieked; children ran howling .to their nurses. People in bathing knew not whether to seek safety on shore or under water. No wonder that strong protests were made by William T. Collins, Acting Mayor of New York, and that the Commandant of the Naval Reserve made a thorough investigation. But it was not the Naval Air Reserve that was responsible for the foolhardy...
...Boston, 40,000 Elks,-accompanied by 40,000 Elk-wives and Elk-children, stampeded the city, spent six days of backslapping, beach-picnicking, speechmaking, parading, cheering, singing at their 60th Convention...