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Feminine Touch. In Port Douglas, Australia, a horned, buoy-like object on the beach, attacked energetically by a woman with a hammer, yielded a fine batch of clinging oysters; later, towed offshore by a mine-disposal squad, yielded a detonation that shook every building in town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 11, 1946 | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

Then coming home from the excursion the beaut of the day was pulled. As the bus started over the Lars Andersen Bridge an alarmed and Regulation-ridden Curly Drexler shouted for all to attach a line and buoy to their wallets...

Author: By W. M. Cousins jr. and T. X. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 9/8/1944 | See Source »

...Carson Pirie Scott, a leading Chicago department store, displayed the weatherworn New Testament which Sergeant John Bartek read to buoy up Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and his raftmates adrift on the Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bible Crusade | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...Buoy: a member of the Navy who lied about his age when enlisting...

Author: By Ens. STIMSON Bullitt, | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 12/17/1943 | See Source »

Three days before the strike was to begin, Daggert went to Superintendent Robert Wilson, asked him to blow the quitting horn 30 minutes early. The men & women, their overalls soggy with sweat, hurried out of the sheds into the blazing sun. Daggert climbed on top a huge buoy he had been welding, stuttered a bit, then began booming in the voice he had used to referee many a Philadelphia fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Speech on a Buoy | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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