Word: decks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four Varsity shells pulled away from the Newell deck, all told, while three Freshman heavy crews also maneuvered on the Charles during the course of the afternoon...
...London bartender pondered a picture of his King clad in shorts and soaking up the equatorial sun on the deck of H.M.S. Vanguard. "The papers say he's keeping in close touch with the situation," said he. "Well, 4,000 miles would be close enough for me, too." But many another Briton, shivering in the grip of the coal crisis, took a kinder view as the papers reported, inch by inch, the royal progress to South Africa...
Aboard the Vanguard, the Queen and her daughters enjoyed the usual shipboard pastimes in cool, short-sleeved, washable prints. One fine day, Her Majesty, prone but queenly, stretched out on the 'deck with the rest of the family to try her hand at target shooting (see cut). Margaret banged out a bull's-eye on her first shot, but young Elizabeth fired 30 rounds without a hit. There were bouts of deck tennis and shuffleboard, and-for the Princesses-a giddy series of tea parties in the midshipmen's "gun room," with charades and some earnest discussion...
...innumerable remedies for seasickness suggested by medicos and inventive travelers (ranging from champagne-drinking to an oxygen mask), perhaps the most picturesque is that of George Bernard Shaw, who, in his traveling days, claimed that he got complete immunity by padding along the deck, knees sagging, with a relaxed, apelike gait...
...might be the hard core of a volcano or peak formed by above-sea erosion. Only deep drilling could give the details. But the mountain was there, far below the growing zone of coral. Darwin, from the deck of his windjammer, had guessed right...