Word: driftwood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looked as though she would get them when as the boats rounded the last mark, she was far out in front and Lorna Whittelsey was third, a good quarter-mile behind Edgartown. By making up that quarter-mile- largely because the Edgartown had somehow picked up a piece of driftwood with her keel-Lorna Whittelsey kept her chance alive but it was a chance as faint as the breeze that had given it to her. In the sixth race, Ruth Sears would have had to miss the one point a boat gets for finishing to lose the championship. Instead, while...
...immediate cremation of a drowned corpse. Those who disposed of Shelley's corpse were Poet Leigh Hunt (who wrote a nerve-wracking description of the event), Poet George Gordon Lord Byron, and Adventurer Edward John Trelawny. As Shelley's incinerating ribs fell apart on their pyre of driftwood, adventurous Trelawny, a lion of a man, thrust in his brawny arm, snatched out the simmering heart. Cried Lord Byron: ''Don't repeat this with me. Let my carcass rot where it falls...
...Driftwood washed up after the storm of last week's election...
Navy V. Columbia- On Manhattan's Harlem River, glazed with iridescent oil spots but for once free of driftwood, two crews sprinted away from a flagged line, heading downstream on the crest of a fast tide. In their hearts the hometown rooters had little faith that the Blue & White shell, containing three sophomores who had never been in a varsity race, could do much to the big Navy boatload. Over the smooth water to high bridge the boats kept abreast, but at the bridge MacRae Sykes, sharp-faced stroke, put the beat up. In a few strokes open water...
...floating branch and sank on Lake Windermere (TIME, June 23). Wales got no ride. Last week, with H. R. H. safely attending social functions in Brazil, Kaye Don drove Miss England II up the estuary of the Parana River, three miles of which Government launches had dragged for driftwood. On the last of three trips, he drove a mile and back at 103.49 m.p.h., a new record. In Miami, Gar Wood of Detroit, who had set the previous record last fortnight in Miss America IX at 102.256 nautical* m. p. h. commented: "We'll see about...