Word: decks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hawsers were cast off. The great vessel began to tremble with the churning of her screws. Gradually she backed away from the dock and drew put into the Solent. Suddenly a little tug, the Southampton Roadster, left the shore and pushed toward the liner. The tug's deck was crowded with roughly clad men. Were the strikers actually going to attack the leviathan? As the tug came alongside, a line was thrown to her. At last the passengers understood. The bootlegged crew, who had been hidden all night, clambered up the ship's sides and officers rushed them...
...Author. A dainty young lady was doing deck sports in the Mediterranean when the steward reached her with a radiogram: "Perennial Bachelor wins second Harper $2,000 novel contest,-" or words to match. Swiftly she informed her husband, Charles A. Corliss, of Englewood, N. J. Joyfully she recalled a visit to her former home, Claremont, Del., when her mother had coined the title. After four years ransacking attics, museums, once-popular song folios, old journals and letters, Peterson's Floral Adornments for the Home of Taste, Friendship Albums, memories of elders and bygone fashion-plates (perhaps too many...
Riding at their anchors, the NA-1, -2 and -3 had to be watched constantly in the rough seas that ran, and kept from the paths of drifting icebergs. The NA2 began to sink, her hull seams opened by battering waves. She was hoisted to the Peary's deck to be caulked and fitted with a new motor...
Fearing that a tunnel under the Channel between France and England would never be built, Engineer Jules Jaeger Satisse thought of another scheme to end Britain's "splendid isolation," and this he sent to the Calais authorities. His plan calls for the building of two double-deck piers, each 261/4 miles long, from France to England. Between the two piers is to be a canal 300 metres wide to enable fast ships to cross in smooth water. The cost of the project was estimated at about...
...never occurred to me, toiling barefooted on the deck and moving among the hands of the fo'c'sle that the time might come when I would live in India as head of the administration, the representative of the King." Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of War, announced that despatches of the first Baron Amherst,* relating to America before, during and after the War of Independence, are to be made available to the public...