Word: dock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sailed with a Field Museum expedition bound for the game-infested interior of Brazil. It was her first venture of the kind but she admitted to no qualms at the thought of traveling 10,000 mi., of entering jungles never visited by white men. Seeing her off at the dock, her husband also denied uneasiness: "She is a splendid shot, you know." To guide and protect her there were seven scientists under the command of famed George K. Cherrie, taxidermist and hunter of Roosevelt expeditions to the River of Doubt, Africa, Turkestan. To afford her feminine company and comfort there...
...party will leave from the dock at the foot of State Street on board the yacht of R. T. Paine. Arrival at Pride's Crossing is fixed for 7.15 o'clock and at 8.45 o'clock a dinner will be given for the guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Prince in Wenham. This program will continue during the remainder of the visit of the royal party in this country...
...citizens who have tried to discover its meaning throughout their stay in France, often persist to the point of asking even the very last Frenchman whom they see on the dock before embarking for home. The reticence of even rough dock hands has impressed many...
...Lumber Co. (13 plants, 126 retail yards), which Robert Alexander Long has made famous, not only by trademarking each board he puts out, but more so by creating the model industrial city of Longview on a drab stretch of the Washington shore of the Columbia River. Oceangoing steamers can dock at Longview. It is a little west of Portland...
...most original geniuses in history. He dealt capably and creatively with poetry, history, philosophy, art, geology, mathematics, astronomy (nebular hypothesis), crystallography, anatomy (texts on blood, brain and nerves); conceived an air-tight stove, a musical instrument, a submarine, a "mechanical carriage," a means of testing boats by models, a dock system, an air gun, a method of hydraulics. The last 28 years of his long life he turned to speculation on the human spirit, organized a code of conduct, pictured a continuous existence for the soul...