Word: dock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mother, he owned the first motor car in the State, permitted the use of his railroad for scenes in early cinemas. (Now he lives on Buzzard's Bay, near New Bedford, Mass., in a high stone house enhanced by a private radio station and flying field. At his dock lies a fully geared oldtime whaling ship.) Hetty Green became the heroine of jokes, speeches, anecdotes and finally, after she died in 1916, of a play called Mother's Millions, of which Universal used the plot for She-Wolf...
...situation. He tried to cut out drinking and could not. Coming back from a business trip to Europe he decided there was only one feature of his life he could reform: give up Henrietta Felise. He cabled her to that effect. But she was waiting for him on the dock...
...leading. Behind Woodworth came a splash, then silence; the third boat had tipped over, must have hit a wave. At West Point, Rhymer ducked in for gas. All right, thought Woodworth, pull in with him. There's the gas pumped out into the feeder, ready on the dock...
Confessing to eleven murders, to seven attempted murders, to a grand total of nearly 100 crimes, Peter Kuerten, a workman aged 47, sat in a neat blue serge suit, in the dock at Düsseldorf last week. A year and a half ago all Germany shuddered at the gruesome exploits of the "Düssel-dorf Murderer." Until he was jailed Düsseldorf children went to school in busses guarded by policemen with pistols (TIME, Jan. 13, June...
Officers and crew were to remain in Lakehurst another week, thence to Akron for eight weeks intensive study of the new dirigible before it is hauled out of the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock for trial flights in July. The hauling will not be done by a ground crew of several hundred men. At Akron is being completed a mobile mooring mast, 76 ft. high, modeled somewhat after the tractor-hauled stub mast developed last year at Lakehurst. The new mast is self-propelled by a 225-h. p. gasoline engine which operates a generator and dynamo. Power is transmitted to caterpillar...