Word: berthed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steeg cabinet, a move which many French newspapers continued to urge last week. Nervy, plump-cheeked Albert Oustric started his career before the War as plain "Albert," a white-aproned waiter in a Toulouse cafe. A little influence kept him out of the trenches, got him a berth in a munitions factory. After the War he started speculating. Financiers doubted last week whether he ever actually made much money, but with all the nerve in the world he rode high on the wave of French inflation, established Banque Oustric et Cie, later was able to buy control of the Banque...
...Many-White-Caps) River at the spot where, on a British warship in 1814, Prisoner Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star Spangled Banner." Far to the east are the smoke and glare of the great new Bethlehem Steel mills. North of Baltimore planes detour to give a wide berth to the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground. Thence: Havre de Grace racetrack; Philadelphia's desolate Sesquicentennial Exposition site; Hog Island...
Michigan banks its hopes on a powerful running attack and a supplemental forward passing offensive in which the widely heralded quarterback, Harry Newman, will figure prominently. Newman has risen from the ranks of a substitute to the regular quarterback berth by his playing against Purdue...
Assignment to training table does not assure a berth there for the entire season, but if the four primary rules, laid down by Trainer Hillman, are observed, the men usually remain on, even in the case of serious injuries. These four rules which are regarded as fundamental and highly important by the coaches prohibit, during season, smoking, alcoholic liquor, late hours of retiring, and the fourth requires at least twenty minutes rest before noon and evening meals. Infraction of even one of these requirements is sufficient to dismiss a player from the table. A minimum of nine hours sleep...
...Vanderbilt kept sail on her. The course signals were up and both boats jockeyed at the line like boxers feeling each other out. Now the first drama of the series occurred. Captain Heard on Shamrock V timed the start better, had his boat over the line in the windward berth ten seconds ahead of Enterprise which had come up too soon and lost way delaying. They had raced a couple of miles on the windward leg before Skipper Vanderbilt caught up. Thrice they split tacks. Then Enterprise in the weather berth slid into her first lead. Her mechanical devices...