Word: decks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again on the deck of the Peten last week he tried to make New York reporters believe that there would be no U. S. intervention, no official pressure on the Machado Government...
...dock which measures about three city blocks long, one block wide and 18 stories high. Like the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock its ends are closed by enormous orange-peel doors. Each "peel" weighs 400 tons, is moved by a 250-h. p. motor. An inclined elevator leads from the "deck" (floor) to the roof. Out of each end of the dock for nearly a half-mile run two standard-gauge railroad tracks terminating in two mooring circles, 4,000 ft. around. A mobile telescopic mooring mast, which can extend from a height of 77 ft. to 160 ft. will haul...
...crews, the Junior Varsity boat lost to Princeton by two lengths on the Charles Saturday. Half of the margin was gained by the Orange and Black when Harvard caught three crabs in the final quarter of the race. The Tigers stole a lead at the start, had about a deck at the quarter-mile, and had increased that to a full length at the mile...
...Sunday the Roosevelts and the MacDonalds went for a seven-hour cruise down the Potomac on the Sequoia. Because it was chilly on deck the President and the Prime Minister sat below talking, talking, talking, mostly about disarmament and how to bring the moribund Geneva Conference back to life and a happy ending. Back at the White House Mrs. Roosevelt scrambled some eggs in a chafing dish for family supper...
...Baltimore last week Harry Allen Overstreet, head of the Philosophy Department at the College of the City of New York, iconoclastically told a Child Study Association meeting that Casabianca, the 13-year-old boy who stood on the burning deck whence all but he had fled, was a "moron without sense enough to respond to a new situation...