Word: dover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the Spanish Rightists were so pleased that Generalissimo Franco ordered released to their British owners the freight boats Caper, Bobie, Sanjold, Dover Abbey, Mirupanu, Yorkbrook and Seven Seas Spray, captured since last July running food and munitions to the Spanish Leftists. The Rightists last week retained the cargoes of these ships as "prizes of war"-thus boldly exercising a belligerent right-sent the empty tramps clanking home to England...
Stephen Winship, Dover--Andover...
...Gris Nez, France, last week 22-year-old Thomas Blower, Nottingham factory hand, slathered himself with grease, slid into the chill water of the English Channel. Plowing the waves like a torpedo, he swam eleven miles in five hours, was four miles off the Dover breakwater in nine hours, met a strong southwesterly tide and was three hours covering the next two miles, finally waded ashore between Dover and Folkestone after 13 hr. 29 min. Twenty-third to complete the channel swim, Blower was 2 hr. 45 min. slower than the Bohemian mechanic, Venceslas Spacek, who set the record...
...night to finish up its year's work. Only break in a boisterous evening, typical of the closing hours of many a State Legislature, was a recess taken at 4 a.m. so that members could troop down through the deserted streets of Delaware's tiny capital (Dover) to see one of their number off on a late train to Manhattan. Next morning everyone slept late, went home happy that the session was over...
Chronologically the first is an Act establishing a mail service between France and England by the Calais and Dover route. This occurred in the regime of Loremie de Brienne, founder of the family which was to carry on the practice of filing away all important state documents in their vaults for 150 years...