Word: comber
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...starting buoy off Calshot Head, proud of her new Marconi rig with its towering hollow mast. King George was aboard, snugly dressed and eager for the day's sport. A squall struck the Britannia's vast mainsail. She heeled over and nosed into a grey comber. Right before King George's eyes the wash swept Second Mate Ernest Friend overboard. Sailors threw him a lifebuoy immediately. The ship luffed and signalled for help. Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V heard the cry "Man Overboard" and hove to. But it was too late. Ernest Friend never reached...
...cinema show on deck, a mustang wave leaped over the rail and soused part of the audience. An hour later, the Maryland was "in it"-a nor' caster in the Gulf of Tehuantepec ("Hatteras of the Pacific") roaring over from the Caribbean across Guatemala and lower Mexico. One comber smashed a port in the Hoovers' quarters in the fantail stern, flooding their dining room. "This is terrible," gasped an attaché. "Oh, I've seen worse," shrugged Mr. Hoover. He was up, wandering about in a bathrobe, several times during the night. The clouds broke...
...long combers of the Pacific were holding their usual stately parade into Laguna Beach, Calif. Luxuriating on the sands lay seminaked figures, brown with bathing, supple with youth, ripple-thewed from exercise. Watching the rollers lazily, the loafing ones would watch little figures scooting shoreward at the forefoot of a comber, lying flat in the foam or poised excitingly erect on flying surf boards...
...other events were won by L. D. Brayton '28 in the 100-yard dash W. I. Taylor '28 in the mile F. B. Clark Lutmann '28 in the mile F. B. Clark '28 in the pole vault and H. C. Ms comber '28 in the high jump...
Because Cristobal Colon (sometimes known as Christoforo Colombo, or Christopher Columbus), son of Domenico Colombo, a wool comber of Genoa, planted his Green Cross and the royal banner of Spain on San Salvador, one twelfth of October, 431 years ago, there will be celebrations throughout this hemisphere next Friday. On that day the Pan-American International Women's Committee will hold conferences in the capitals of practically every Republic of both the Americas...