Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, June 22 et seq.), last week crossed icy Davis Strait to Jack Lane's Bay, Labrador. The Bow-doiris forecastle was awash, a 400-lb. drum of gasoline had been swept overboard, a rare specimen or two collected by Naturalist Walter N. Koelz had been lost; but all hands were well and happy to be in touch once more with their home continent. The Peary, with the expedition's Navy seaplanes lashed on deck, had fared similarly. Nosing on southward, the Bowdoin ran aground, snapped her mainsail gaff in a sharp squall. At last the buildings...
...shoot an arrow from a six-foot yew-bow, to hit a golf ball, to throw a baseball, to cast a heavy fishing-slug for distance in the surf -manly exercises all. But does the missile fly farthest from rod, arm, club or bow? Which engine is superior in speed, in accuracy? A hypothetical question, surely; one that might be debated i Erewhon on Midsummer Day, with Walter Travis expatiating kindly to Amos Rusie, Izaak Walton put-tnig in a gnarled, shy word, and the laughter of Robin Hood foaming clear and soft like...
...there, and after his leading lady, Ann Forrest, had taken several curtain calls at the close of the second act, consented to speak. He outlined his views on stage purity, complimented Boston for its support of the cause, and ended by calling on Mayor Curley to rise and bow from his seat in the orchestra. The mayor took advantage of the opportunity to say a few words...
...York and Boston. On a fine clear night last week she steamed out of Long Island Sound into the ocean on the last leg of her northward voyage. Only a few miles beyond Block Island, off the Rhode Island coast she sighted a light off her starboard bow. The light was low on the water and for a time was taken as the light of a rum runner, then suddenly it became apparent that the boat carrying the light was about to cross the steamer's bow. The Captain of the City of Rome set up a warning shriek...
...leaving the sea once again in undisturbed darkness. In six or seven minutes boats were lowered. Three men were found in the water, seamen from the S-51 caught from their bunks and vomitted up through the conning tower by the sea water pouring through the hole in the bow...