Word: buoying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centre. Charting the Banks for the U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, U. S. S. Hydrographer bumped into the strange revolving current, was thrown off its course. Captain William Edward Parker tried to drive the Hydrographer through the whirlpool. It balked him. Next week he intends to anchor a buoy at the fringe of the phenomenon and with that as a marker work his way through from the opposite side...
...fingers, toes and the interdigital folds, the nails. The feet and hands are the most common sites of infection. Small blisters form and the skin erodes. W. F. Young Inc. of Springfield, Mass., makers of the proprietary germicide Absorbine Jr., taking a lesson from Listerine's Halitosis and Life Buoy Soap's Body Odor, have for the sake of advertising and popular education been translating tinea or ringworm as Athlete's Foot...
General Italo Balbo, whose famed triads leaped the Atlantic to Natal last January, was nearly drowned last week in the Bay of Naples when his seaplane struck a submerged buoy in taking off, and sank. Two months ago the general's adjutant, Col. Umberto Maddalena, and two flyers of the squadron were killed when a propeller snapped and tore through the cabin of their plane (TIME, March...
...along with this intellectual emancipation, a highly desirable factor in progressive institution, is placed side by side the incongruous system of compulsory class attendance. It is the ever-present life-buoy thrown out by the suicide, who generally does not avail himself...
...Johnson brothers, Graham and Lowndes, of Easton, Md., won last year in New Orleans with Eel. The boats were Stars?the most popular class of racing sloops in the world, 22 ft. 7½ in. long, Marconi rigged. Sometimes they went windward and leeward off Gibson Island Clubhouse, to a buoy and back, and sometimes around a little triangular course in which they turned eight buoys although the course totaled only 10? mi. Stars are fast in light airs, but on the Chesapeake they had two days of strong racing weather. On the last morning the bay was choppy and little...