Word: berthed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scrimmage saw one change in the Team A lineup when Kales went to right tackle in place of Cunningham, who had been there for the past few days. Kales has been ineligible for the past two years and is making a strong effort for a first team berth this season. Kales running mate at right guard was Brooks, who replaced Talbot, while Ogden was at the end. Captain Ticknor, of course, was at center, and the left side of the line had Harding, end, Richards, tackle, and Trainer, guard. The Junior backfield of Wood, Mays, Devens, and White completed...
...municipal scows bearing tons & tons of New York City's garbage. Twenty miles south of Scotland Light they dump their burdens into the dark sea, return. Barge E of the city's Sanitation Commission garbage fleet last week completed her usual run, lay, supposedly empty, at her berth almost under Brooklyn Bridge. At 3 a. m. about 100 men appeared there with three big trucks, swarmed over...
...Yankee left her berth at Lawly's Yard at Neponset, Mass., and with two tenders Doodle and Dandy risked thick fog to join the other America's Cup Defenders at the western end of Long Island Sound last week. While she stood by during three races, George Ratsey looked over her sails, which he had built at his City Island lofts. (He also made the sails for the other defenders.) Fortunately for the Yankee, she rode quite a distance away from the Robert Jacob shipyard on City Island. Fire damaged that yard's pier. It destroyed about...
...that Admiral Kato's favorite protege on the naval staff of which he is chief was Lieu-enant-Commander Yeiji Kusakari, scion of an old Samurai clan of deathless bravery, a highstrung man of 40, husband of a devoted wife, father of four. This officer last week engaged a berth at Kobe on the night express for Tokyo. Along toward dawn the conductor heard groans from his compartment, knocked diffidently, received no answer, debated for some time before he dared to unlock a staff officer's door...
...berth was a dark sodden pool of blood, upon it in terrible agony writhed Lieutenant-Commander Yeiji Kusakari. He had chosen the most painful and for a Samurai the most noble death: harakiri. With a short dagger which had belonged in medieval times to one of his ancestors he had slashed his abdomen through and through...