Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...towline and 34 steel drums of gasoline were heaved into the seas of seething slush to lighten the stranded hull. Nearby, a cruising iceberg burst with a dull report, setting up a monstrous wash which swept the Bowdoin off her perch. On southward steamed the ships. The elements relented. Dread Melville Bay, frigid storm-pocket of that Greenland Coast, lay unexpectedly calm and free of ice. Still skirting shore, the ships made for Disko Island (their coaling station on the way north), the Peary leading the way with MacMillan aboard. The latter discussed with Commander Byrd the likelihood of repairing...
Colonel Freyberg. One night some years ago, a British officer painted his body black and slipped over a dread-naught's side into the moiling waters of the Dardanelles. He swam ashore, penetrated the Turkish lines, lit flares to guide a landing-party. For this exploit he received a medal from his Government. When Author Sir James Barrie, some time later, was delivering a now celebrated address before St. Andrews University, he referred to this incident as an example of incomparable courage, turned to bow to Colonel Freyberg who sat behind him on the platform...
...conclusions: "Every prisoner feared the law, and hated it for the punishment it imposed. There is a dread that the fear of prison causes which I am now convinced is beneficial. I formerly thought prisons out of date, but now have changed my viewpoint. They serve a very useful purpose. Only there is not sufficient attention paid to fitting girls to lead a straight life when once they leave confinement...
...period of Filipino political control, under the Jones Act, 300 infant children contracted the dread disease, and the colony went from bad to worse...
...have colonial aspirations. At a semi-scientific meeting, at which Reichsbank President Schacht and Explorer Duke Johann von Mecklenburg were present, the "Bayer 205" serum against sleeping sickness was discussed in relation to its possible utility in Africa. The right for Germany to coöperate in exterminating that dread disease was claimed. Underneath this talk was the conviction that Germany's lost African colonies should be restored, since German scientists can make Africa healthy and safe for humanity...