Word: docked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy Yard and boarded the good ship Chantier. There he saw to it that the Josephine was properly stowed below decks in a dismantled condition, showed his backers and friends over the craft on an inspection tour, and with 45 companions waved goodby as the Chantier slipped out of dock. Going down the bay, a sleek yacht escorted the Chantier with her owner, Vincent Astor, aboard, and other Byrd-backers, including John D. Rockefeller Jr., Edsel Ford, F. Trubee Davison, Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett. Tromso, Norway...
...harbor than in any foreign port at which he has landed. Not more rigid inspection, but merely less component maneuvers of government officials, mysterious and inscrutable, keep the Traveller alert for hours beneath the statue, his trip over, his baggage ready, his friends just beyond sight on the dock waiting. Perhaps a new wrist watch on high might record the wasted hours and remind the inspectors of the value of time...
...staff, an athletic director and the usual extra-curriculum activities, in order to relieve the monotony a long sea voyage. The entire expense of the eight months trip is $2500 per student. A limited number of preparatory school boys will be included in the roster, and the boat will dock at New York in June, 1927, in ample time for them to take college entrance examinations prepared for on the trip...
Recently there stood in the dock of the Old Bailey, famed London law court, one more tatterdemalion derelict of the thousands that file in and out of that hall of Justice every year. His furtive, watery eye, his mumbled speech and disconsolate countenance marked him for a waif indeed. He was penniless, friendless, and without an advocate...
Twelve men, honest and intelligent citizens of the Commonwealth of New Jersey, stood before a prisoner's dock on Monday night and, gazing steadfastly at a youth whose short existence has proved a muddle to himself and a menace to others, condemned him to death. Thus have they rid themselves of any popular conviction of injustice. In their opinion society will be better without the presence of this one disordered mind. No complaint, therefore, will arise from those who saw in the different outcome of a similar case in Chicago the absolute "miscarriage of justice". This court and its jurors...