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Word: coasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...installed on a U. S. warship. Mr. Hoover, unpacking, cast a bright eye on his new-bought kit of deep-sea fishing tackle. Watching the lazy Pacific swells some of his first thoughts were about the monster sailfish, amber-jacks, tuna, wahoos, crevalles and yellowtails that live off the coast of Lower California and in the tide-rips from there to Chile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The President-Elect | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...eight 10,000-ton cruisers authorized by Congress in 1924 and now abuilding, six had been named-the Pensacola, Salt Lake City, Chester, Chicago, Houston, Augusta. Last week, Secretary Wilbur named a seventh, for obvious reasons, the Northampton. For the eighth ship, a building in Puget Sound, Pacific Coast Republicans urged the name Palo Alto. Iowans protested it should be the West Branch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Northampton | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...West Coast Trip Planned

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Football Series a History of Two Waves of Victory | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

Immediately after the Yale game plans were laid for a game on the West Coast for January 1, 1920, and on December 1 a reconditioning of the squad set in. The tilt at Pasadena with Oregon brought all there was of stamina and perseverance in the Harvard men, much effected by the heat. After a hard fought and very closely contested game, in which Harvard's shining light proved to be her later coach. Arnold Horween '20, the Crimson jerseyed fighters left the field 7 to 6 victors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Football Series a History of Two Waves of Victory | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

...standards of sea-lore should have concealed a heart of gold beneath his rough exterior, revealed, by persistent bullying, his petulant nature. Moreover he consumed his soup with a sibilant hiss. Blettsworthy, mimicking him, incurred a wrath that culminated horribly: the ship was wrecked off the stormy Patagonian coast; all hands were escaping by boat; the captain, before clearing, locked his supercargo into the sinking steward-room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sacred Lunatic | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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