Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kilo-watts), that transfusion of this power from the ship to the city's distributing stations was altogether practicable. But if the ship were sent, might not a precedent be set?civilians being the importunate souls they are?that would keep the Lexington dashing up and down the Pacific Coast, and her sister the Saratoga up and down the Atlantic, turning on "emergency" power every time a river ran low? Washington's Senator Wesley Livsey Jones persuaded Secretary Adams that Tacoma's situation was really growing grave. Secretary Adams said he could not let the Lexington help out unless Tacoma...
...swoop of water slapped against the shore. It fell back, slapped up again and again. Rent, twisted, smashed, into flotsam went wharves, stores, homes, people. Devastation: more than a score killed and drowned; hundreds maimed and mauled; 500 homes, 100 fishing boats and 26 schooners smashed; 70 miles of coast stripped of wharves and fishing gear. At sea the quake shook ships. Nine of the 21 cables across the North Atlantic tore apart. Cable repair boats, always waiting for trouble, sped from ports to a point about 900 miles northeast of Manhattan. The breaks were found by exact instruments which...
...Coolidge's monograph is remarkable, not only because he reduces the genus Gorilla to one species, but because he has differentiated two specific subspecies, the "mountain" and the "coast" gorillas. To his study he appends a map which limits the area within which gorillas are to be found in Africa to not more than 40,000 square miles but of 11,500,000 square miles in the entire continent, or 3-10 of one per cent of the entire area. It is a feature of the work which is bound to interest laymen, because it shows for the first time...
...describes the general external characteristics in the adult male which distinguish the Mountain from the Coast Gorilla as, "a longer palate and often a narrower skull, a thicker pelage or belt, shorter arms and longer legs, large amount of black hair, and prominent fleshy callosity on the chest...
...line that Mr. James wants to build runs parallel to the coast, about 175 miles inland, from Klamath Falls, Ore., to Paxton, Calif. Only one through route, the Southern Pacific, exists between the Pacific Northwest and San Francisco. The James extension would join the Great Northern and the Western Pacific into a second, and in some ways much superior, through route. Said Mr. James last week to Commissioner Mahaffie and the 200 witnesses and participants in the case: "I saw in the transportation and industrial situation in central and northern California an opportunity to carry on a constructive work which...