Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...narrow strip running 125 miles along the Bay of Biscay. In this strip there was no food, no trade. Jose Antonio de Aguirre, the fiery little Basque President who had retreated with his government from Bilbao to Santander, gave up the struggle as a bad job and boarded a boat for Bayonne, France...
...strange tale of 14 men in a boat came out of the British-owned Bahamas last week. On the beach near Mayari, Cuba, startled fishermen looked up from their work to see a motor launch, propelled by a sail pieced out of dirty shirts and trousers, ground itself in the shallow-water. Out of the rudderless boat tumbled five Americans, nine British West Indian Negroes. Wolfing food and water, the first they had seen in four blistering clays, the tattered survivors gasped out a story of riot, rebellion on Great Inagua,* southernmost of the Bahamas, 50 miles from the Cuban...
...their experiences did not end on the Cuban beach. Down to the water's edge came Cuban rural policemen, hastily summoned by the fishermen. One look at the small arsenal in the boat, rifles, pistols, gas bombs, rounds of ammunition, and the suspicious local police rushed the refugees off to jail, suspected them of being a revolutionary expedition to Cuba's shores. This week Cuban authorities released them, arranged to ship them back to Great Inagua...
...Boat Houses--of which there are two, Weld for individual scullers and Newell for the crews...
...geologist, he took the trip largely for the purpose of observing "animal adaptation and behavior." Watching for natural phenomena, he studied the appearance of the water just before a flying fish lifted from it. This, said he in Science last week, "was not like the wake of a boat, nor like the ruffled water behind an aeroplane taking off. It was rather a series of dots in two parallel rows, thus : : : : : : :, and was undoubtedly made by the tips of the fluttering wings before the fish had completely cleared the water." The fish, he said, moved close to the water surface...