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Word: coastguardsmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...this information is catalogued, but the main computations are derived from the reports of obviously competent and trained observers,--surveyors, trained seamen, coastguardsmen, and the like. Their letters, coming from scattered positions along the coast, notable from Isle au Haute, Me.; Boston Harbor, Nantucket, Nantasket, and Jonesboro, Me.; and towns along the North Shore of Massachusetts supply accurate magnetic compass directions and angles of elevations of the starting and vanishing points of the flight, and a comparison of the size of the body with that of the sun at the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Observatory Makes Report On Large Meteor Seen In New England | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...discovered that tall, swart Leo M. Karakhan had been quietly transferred from his important post as chief of the Far Eastern section of the Foreign Office, will in the future busy himself with the Near East. And a Moscow court last week gave stiff jail sentences to four Russian coastguardsmen who last July killed three Japanese crab fishermen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Karakhan Out? | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

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