Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small portion of the institution is occupied by United States Coast Guard (Base 9) and so efficiently have they patrolled the seas that we have been compelled to retreat to the back country for our alcoholic beverages...
...reared in a Baptist home, graduated from a Baptist college and a Baptist seminary, have been a member of a Baptist church 47 years and an ordained Baptist minister over 30 years. I have spoken at Baptist conventions city, county, state, provincial, inter-provincial, national and international from coast to coast in the United States and Canada. But I have never met "Baptist ritual." It is time for me to do so. If you will be so good as to furnish me a copy or advise me where I can secure one I shall be pleased...
...Navy's court of inquiry on the S-4 disaster (TIME, Dec. 26 et seq.), closed its hearings at Boston last week. Summing up, Navy men blamed Coast Guardsmen, who blamed Navy men, for the collision in which either a) the destroyer Paulding, scouting at top speed for rum-boats, gored the rising submarine 54, or b) the S-4 "ran into the Paulding." Evidence showed: that the Paulding's inexperienced lookout had mistaken the S-4's splashing periscope for a fishnet buoy; that the Navy had not notified the Coast Guard that submarines were operating on the Provincetown...
...speedboat, plunging forward on its cushion of spray, carried His Highness Prince Louis II of Monaco, last week, across shimmering Winyah Bay, South Carolina, to Georgetown. For several days the Sovereign of Monaco had dwelt in complete incognito and obscurity (TIME, Jan. 23) at Hobcan Barony, the luxurious Carolina coast hunting lodge of Manhattan economist Bernard Mannes Baruch. As the speedboat slithered up to a pier at Georgetown, last week, Mr. Baruch and Prince Louis hailed an ancient Negro hackman who drove them to the station. There His Highness entrained for Manhattan, after buying a newspaper...
...conversion of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway into the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad became a fact last week upon the grudging consent of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Eleven thousand miles of track between Lake Michigan and the Pacific Coast, rolling stock, terminals and other property representing total investments of three quarters of a billion dollars changed hands...