Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...schedule in its hand, there are eight Sophomores who will have none of this. They will steady themselves on the deck of the battleship Utah as she bucks the tides of the island-dotted lower harbor of Boston. The Utah is bound for the trial courses off the Maine coast; as members of her crew these eight students will be not merely witnesses, but participants in naval manoeuvre...
...establishment at Harvard in the fall of 1926 of the naval science unit was part of a great experiment, simultaneously engineered by the government at Yale, Georgia Tech and in a number of colleges on the Pacific Coast. It is yet too early for judgement of the experiment in the same definite terms which made ascertainable the success of the corresponding venture in military science. Marked, however, by the shaping of study to the pleasure as well as profit of the student, the nearing close of the second year of naval science at Harvard may be said to have given...
...Bakersfield seven years; my husband for 15. We are agreed that no matter how free the years might make us to wander, Bakersfield shall be our permanent headquarters. Bakersfield does have high summer temperatures but so has every other spot in this big state not right at the sea coast. Los Angeles, we think, is ''dreadfully hot" in summer, because it is often sultry; Bakersfield has the dry clear air of its neighbor, the Mojave desert...
...daub of foam and then a dark hulk appeared on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Provincetown, Mass., last week. The Navy submarine S-4 had been raised from the bottom of the sea, exactly 15 minutes less than three months after it had been gored by the Coast Guard destroyer Paulding (TIME, Dec. 26). It was towed to the Navy Yard at Boston for inspection. Six bodies covered with mud and slime were found in the torpedo compartment. But nowhere was a written record of the horrible last hours of those bodies...
...Capt. Hinchliffe and Miss Mackay take off from Cranwell Airdrome, England, for the War veteran had told only two friends he was going and Miss Mackay had promised her family she would not. None is known to have seen them once they got beyond the Irish coast. A crowd of 5,000 stood all night at Mitchell Field, Long Island, waiting for them. But they never came...