Word: coves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lucas he observed that the rocks were "ferocious with life....Perhaps the force of the great surf which beats on this shore has much to do with the tenacity of the animals here. It is noteworthy that the animals, rather than deserting such beaten shores for the safe cove and protected pools, simply increase their toughness and fight back at the sea with a kind of joyful survival. This ferocious survival quotient excites us and makes us feel good, and from the crawling, fighting, resisting qualities of the animals, it almost seems that they are excited...
Birthday. John Pierpont Morgan, 74; at his estate near Glen Cove, L.I. Said he to reporters: "Will you just leave me alone today...
When telephones in the bank began to ring, Mr. Thurston began to put two & two together. He learned that his missing employes and 30 others had sailed the day before from Dyer's Cove, 60 miles from inland Rumford, to picnic on Monhegan Island. They had been taken there by Skipper Paul Johnson on the Don, a 44-foot "Nova Scotian," long past her rum-running prime. Thurston telephoned to the Coast Guard. They had seen nothing...
...fitting finale to the season the Varsity crows of both Harvard and Yale paddled to the starting line in Bartlett's cove, half way from the Crimson training quarters at Red Top and the Eli's camp at Gales Ferry, late Saturday afternoon. Previously the combination crew composed of substitutes had whipped the Elis by a length and three quarters, the Freshmen had turned the same trick by three lengths, and the Junior Varsity had been hard pressed in winning by a length...
...surging shells swing away from the starting line at Bartlett's Cove and head down the four mile stretch of blue Thames toward the Railway Bridge at 7 o'clock this Saturday, Harvard and Yale oarsmen will match strokes in the seventy-ninth annual meeting of these traditional rivals...