Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fears and apprehensions directed to the stability of first one nation and then another have caused . . . large flows of gold to meet exchange demands. . . . Thus a mass of gold dashing hither and yon from one nation to another, seeking maximum safety, has acted like a cannon loose on the deck of the world in a storm...
...Heave to!" radioed the Java to the mutineers. "Show a white tarpaulin on the awning deck. Surrender and abandon ship...
...Warsaw and Paris, Father Skalski is now professor of Modern Theology, Church History and Sociology at the Grand Seminary. He is in the U. S. to preach in Polish at Polish churches in the East. When he arrived, tall Father Skalski was photographed with average-sized Owen Murphy, a deck steward who was his altar-boy for masses on board 5. 5. Berengaria. Father Skalski speaks English with a booming voice, a French accent and many an interjected "Pardon?" When newshawks told him he must surely be the tallest priest in the world, he laughed thunderously, said...
...cabin and the parts of the ship where he would be. By making a careful itinerary she knew at every moment the ship's probable position. Her love preoccupied her so that she found she was able to "be" where Pierre was, to see him walking the deck, sitting in his cabin, finally even to make him "see" that she was there. At this point their dangerous experimenting stopped. They never talked to each other about it, but neither of them ever forgot...
...craft, to wind its way down the coast through the twisty inland waterway to better fun and fishing. Progress was slow through shoal waters. Twice the Sequoia grounded. The President baked in the sun, played Hoover-ball, worked at a desk set up under an awning on the after deck...