Word: decks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paix in Paris. I had been sitting at it, off & on, ever since 1886 and in 1931. during the Colonial Exposition, I "abducted" it as a souvenir and now I have my coffee at home-but "au Cafe de la Paix." The picture was made on the deck of the lie de France as we came up the harbor in New York. I am lending the table to the Streets of Paris at the Century of Progress, where it will occupy its corner at the Chicago Cafe de la Paix...
...knob-fisted Cuban Negro whose quick, malicious dexterity makes him one of the most exciting fighters in the world to watch. His opponent in Manhattan last week was a serious little Englishman, Seaman Tom Watson, who acquired a strange flat-footed technique by learning to box on the heaving deck of a battleship. The best featherweight in Europe, he began to commute to the U. S. for fights last autumn, returning after each one to tend the Newcastle bar which he bought out of his winnings. The difference in their styles made the fight interesting, puzzled Chocolate for the first...
...Jayvee race, the Crimson eight finished a deck ahead of the Naval Academy in 10 minutes, 2 seconds, one second before the losers. Penn did not compete...
...quarter of a mile from the finish a police launch that was chasing the speedy outboard motorboat gave the Crimson crew another wash, and the Midshipmen. rowing at 36, got ahead by a deck Stroke Drury raised the Crimson beat from 33 as soon as the wash had subsided; and Coxswain Littlefield spurred the crew by telling them that there were only ten strokes to go when there were actually twenty. Drury and his crew responded with what was the best sprint witnessed this year on the Charles; and they nosed out the Midshipmen by a bare quarter-length...
...tarpaulin criss-crossed by wooden laths. The apron trails in the water from the steamer's stern. A seaplane or amphibian alighting at the station taxies up the apron to be hoisted aboard- apron and all. For taking off there are catapults on the Westphalen's deck. Also she provides radio, weather forecasting paraphernalia, fuel etc. The Westphalen was chartered by Germany's Lufthansa, which hopes to beat both France and Italy in the race for the first heavier-than-air service to South America. If successful. Lufthansa will co-ordinate the schedules of Dornier flying boats...