Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in my life," she cried, "I saw the Atlantic Fleet given a silent reception at Plymouth! . . . But our gloom soon turned to hope when we got in touch with the men of the lower deck. I spent three days going among them, and never once came across a sailor who realized the consequences of his action. ... It is hard for anybody who does not know the British sailor to realize the simplicity of his point of view, but I assure my friends in America and elsewhere that the British Navy is as safe and sound as ever...
...visitor steps to the deck of the "City of New York", he is greeted by a guide who is thoroughly familiar with the Expedition, its work, and its achievements. On the deck he is shown the quarters where Admiral Byrd lived and planned and commanded the 84 men of his Expedition. His quarters are preserved nearly intact. Visitors are shown the chart room, where the navigation of the ship on her long and difficult voyages was carried out. Farther aft, in the radio room, what is considered to be one of the most powerful instruments afloat, is to be inspected...
...beens and never-wases." Said facetious Expert Culbertson: "When I was arrested for speaking Russian with suspicious fluency, I offered to play the head of the secret service a [Sidney] Lenz problem in order to prove that I was merely . . . Culbertson. . . . But the chief could not find a deck of cards with kings or queens in the pack. . . . Even with the provisional deck he agreed . . . that I was neither [Milton] Work nor Lenz...
...entered, was not engraved on the tall, gold Harmsworth Cup. Whether or not it will be is up to the Yachtsmen's Association of America which will meet to ponder the problem soon. The crew of a tugboat salvaged Miss England II. Her stern was cracked apart, her deck ripped off but her Rolls-Royce motors were practically undamaged. Her designer, Fred Cooper, declared she could be patched up and. with bigger motors, be made capable of 150 m. p. h. She was taken unrepaired to Toronto and placed, an equivocal exhibit of international sport, on view...
...Cape Breton one morning last week. Passengers lined the rail, crowded about a roped enclosure on the sundeck to watch a sturdy monoplane mounted on a sort of sled and turntable between the two smokestacks. Pilot Joachim Blankenburg waved a signal from the cockpit, a seaman on deck threw a lever and the sled shot to the edge of the deck, flinging the seaplane out over the water at 80 m. p. h. The plane rose rapidly, circled the Euro pa in salute, vanished into the west with mail for the U. S. and Canada...