Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Major General Lansing H. Beach, chief of Engineers of the War Department, reported that the upper portion of the White House both structurally and as a fire hazard was unsafe. A matter of some $400,000 is needed for renovation...
...probably during his life on these islands that he conceived the idea that there might be a land across the Atlantic Ocean, for he found washed up on the beach by the gulf stream, which flows north from North America to sweep south past Spain to these islands, bits of wood unknown in Europe or Africa, also carved pieces which could not possibly have been the work of European hands...
...Hughes' offer to participate in a solution of the reparations problem, a good word for his successor ?" Kellogg is the type of man the Britishers like"? and a good word for his black silk knee breeches?" They will be good to play golf in?say at Palm Beach this Winter?for they are not very thick...
...anti-aircraft guns fired away in pitch darkness broken intermittently by searchlights. The gunners destroyed three of the target gliders, demonstrating the effectiveness of anti-aircraft defense even at night, and the fliers came down safely. But the slightest miscalculation would have meant death. Hundreds of persons at Willoughby Beach and Old Point Comfort (Va.) witnessed the manuevers, heard shells burst 5,000 feet above their heads...
...Grayson '27 defeated W. A. Grimes '25, 6-1, 6-0; T. S. Hanington 1G.B., defeated H. C. Havighurst 1L., 6-3, 6-4; A. R. Allen Jr., '26 defeated E. S. Babbitt '26, 6-3, 6-4; W. P. Dixon '25 defeated R. D. Beach...