Word: decks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gather on B Deck about the starboard (the opposite of port) gangway. Passengers are advised not to throw pennies at the drivers, because once you begin, and Harvard man is smart enough to know you possess larger coins. You will be transported ashore in our own tenders...
...with the red face said he was James Starkey, 53, civil engineer with the Resettlement Administration and lifelong friend of Keene. He had not known the latter was going to be on the boat when he took it on Government business, had run into him on deck. He said he found Keene moody, evasive, had worried about him. This apparently accounted for the clerk's difficulty in understanding the relationship. When Keene had disappeared for a few hours and Starkey had questioned him, Starkey quoted his reply: "I've been in my stateroom talking over my deal." With...
...Pacific Ocean. At its noon point, totality lasted 7 min. 4 sec., longer than any eclipse since the rise of modem astronomy, longer in fact than any since the year 699 A. D. But the noon point was 1,800 miles from any land. Precision measurements from the swaying deck of a ship are out of the question...
...last week, hundreds of thousands of Britons waited patiently for a description of the second most important event of the Coronation season, the fireworks and illumination of the greatest naval review since the World War. For the scene of the broadcast, British Broadcasting Corp. had chosen the most hallowed deck in the Royal Navy, Nelson's flagship the Victory in whose cockpit he died, lying in dry-dock at Portsmouth, two miles from the five-mile quadruple row of 160 of the world's fighting ships (see map). For announcer the B.B.C. chose Lieut. Commander Tom Woodrooffe, because...
Greatest hush-hush ship in line was not the Soviet battleship Marat whose comrade sailors spent most of their time exercising on parallel bars on deck, nor the Nazi pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec which served beer to visitors, but the pride of the French navy, the Dunkerquc. Only official visitors were allowed on board, and even they were rushed below decks as quickly as possible. Though only half the size of Britain's ponderous Hood, the newly completed Dunkerque, spies insist, is the fastest and most heavily armored battleship afloat...