Word: buoying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the 110th Cavalry team last Saturday. Owing to his brilliant showing as a substitute in last week's encounter R. A. Pinkerton '27 has won a regular berth on the first team. Pinkerton's play in the Caverly game was one of the few things that served to buoy Crimson hopes last Saturday. He will replace F. D. Stranahan Jr. '26 at number one in the University line-up. Stranahan will accompany the team as a substitute. W. H. White '28 will remain at number two in the coming contest with the Cadets. His play throughout the season...
...aboard to tell us where we were. He put for shore, got out, ran inland Meanwhile I landed, went to the store for provisions. A crowd had gathered. It seemed that the man from the boat had told a story of heard seeing a it go buoy 'puff, going puff, against puff,' the tide, smelled sulphur. Then the devil had come out of the smokestack ! "On these early boats, three white mice were members of every crew - to detect gas. When they keeled over it was time to come...
...ever plastered on the films. This concerns the efforts of the young commander of a light-ship to rescue his beloved and her party, clinging to a yacht that is impaled on treacherous reefs. They are gradually carried off by grace of the wireless and the breeches buoy. The young commander, who must absolve himself from the taint of cowardice inherited from poltroon father, is torn between love and his duty to stick by his ship in a storm. Rod La Rocque is excellent, not only in his heroic moments, but in the dramatization of the inhibition that...
Vidar Jernberg, Swedish chemical engineer, makes thick and plentiful fogs with a two-foot machine, of value both in warfare and in agriculture. His "smoke buoy", when dropped upon the water, starts producing 35,000 cubic metres of smoke a minute, hiding objects 30 ft. away. The "smoke projector", for land work, generates fog much faster. Several European navies are now using his methods. Their pacific value lies in spreading smoke blankets over orchards, gardens and fields to prevent the ravages of frost. Radiation from the ground is checked...
...Canadian fishermen off Halifax. Though there was no question of her superiority when the boats crossed the finish line, Bluenose, Canadian defender, was declared by the judges loser in the second of three races scheduled with Columbia, American challenger, because Skipper Angus Walters failed to pass the Lighthouse Bank buoy to seaward...