Word: fjorded
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...dancing to the music of balalaikas and accordions, Canadians, Norwegians and Russians fraternized. As the dim white midnight brightened into dim white dawn, the Russians picked up their belongings and went aboard the ship allotted to them. The British and Norwegians boarded their vessel. Slowly they steamed down the fjord...
...leading almost 23 years ago. For the speaker was Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. The man who heard the Kaiser's words was a U.S. journalist, William Bayard Hale of the New York Times. They were aboard the imperial yacht Hohenzollern, at anchor in the fjord of Bergen, Norway, one July evening in 1908, and the Kaiser stalked the deck in the gold braid of an Admiral of the German High Seas Fleet. He spoke English, in which he was fluent, and sometimes he leaned close to his interviewer and lowered his voice confidentially, sometimes he raised...
...mightier Army to threaten France and Russia, a mighty economy which threatened to follow the Kaiser's pet Berlin-Bagdad Railway to domination of the Middle East (see p. 22). The Triple Entente was born of this fear. Cried the Kaiser to Reporter Hale in the Bergen fjord...
Favorite shipbuilding technique of the Norsemen was to dam the water out of a fjord, build the ship on the ground, float her off by breaking the dam and letting the sea back in. Last week Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Corp. (South Portland, Me.) was using this old Viking trick and Maine's nine-foot tides to speed construction on 30 $1,600,000 pre-fabricated freighters for Britain. Having no fjords, Todd-Bath steam-shoveled a basin about five feet below water. At launching time (around May 1) the incoming tide bubbling through opened gates will gently float...
Uses. Last year the State Department dispatched young James Penfield and George West Jr. on the Coast Guard cutter Comanche to establish the first U.S. consulate in Greenland. Through fog to Arsuk Fjord, to Ivigtut and beyond...