Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instruments and relics, greatly enlarged by munificent gifts from Sir James Caird, shipowner and meat importer, and from Queen Mary. King George last week was able to inspect the coat in which Nelson died; the first chronometer; Sir Francis Drake's astrolabe; two logbooks belonging to Captain James Cook...
Nobody denies that the French know how to cook. And when it comes to turning the raw material of life into a souffle of light literature, the French are there again. For U. S. readers with ticklish palates, books like The Scandals of Clochemerle will prove an agreeable morsel...
Fewest letters in a major sport went to Varsity track men, five of whom qualified; Howard A. Cook '37, Robert Haydock, Jr. '39, Winslow L. Pettingel '38, William H. Schmidt, 2nd '37, captain, and Charles W. Hubbard, 3rd '37, manager...
...backstays part and the We're Here's mainmast goes overside, carrying with it Manuel in a tangle of canvas, cable and running gear. Cut to pieces by the wire cable in which he is fouled below the waist. Manuel screams in Portuguese to Doc, the cook, telling him to have the wreckage cut away so that Harvey, his "leetle feesh," will not know what has happened...
...applicants he could have had enough to pack the Joseph Conrad in a day. On Oct. 22, 1934, carrying a crew of eight nationalities, looking like the ghost of Bligh's Bounty, the 212-ton, three-masted Joseph Conrad sailed from Harwich to follow the route of Captain Cook around the world. Chronicling the 57,800-mile voyage which ended two years later, Author Villiers lets his prose swell under full press...