Word: foams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over the course roared the boat in a stiff inverted V of foam. Turning around, she shot down the lake again. Her average time for the two trips was 98.76 m. p. h. That broke the record. To the two men with him Segrave said, "Let's try her once more." Now the engines were warmed up. Miss England II was doing more than 101 m. p. h. on her third run when she swerved suddenly. The whole side of the thin white flying shell seemed to give way. While the roar of the engines still echoed across...
...climax of our congratulations involves "Pink and White" whose family tree was so meticulously portrayed to the great melting pot. Only when a new-world brew settles into layers does it become interested in those of Ale and Stout. It then seems to limit its interest to the foam on the top. TIME therefore felt justified, or at least prudent, in devoting so much space to the Ancestry of "Pink and White...
...cleaved through the water in a hectic fifty in which less than a foot separated the five swimmers: Ruddy outlasted Clapp of Stanford and Captain Ault of Michigan in the longest race of the evening; and the powerful Kojac, in his favorite backstroke style, pulled himself along through the foam more than a body length ahead of all the rest in the 150-yard backstroke. Schwartz returned to the starting end for the second time and led the way again, this time in the century...
...event at the Yale meet last week-end. Harms had the advantage during the 50 yards of breast stroke but once the Rutgers star got on his back there was no stopping him and he gained such a big advantage that Harms was swallowing his foam all through the rest of the race...
From her birth on the foam of the Mediterranean to her final disappearance from the medieval German castle of Venusberg, Venus's career consisted of little but amatory adventures. Author de Miomandre's account does not pretend to be exhaustive, but it hits the high spots: her marriage with Vulcan, her bedazzlement of Paris, subsequent passages at arms with Mars, Anchises, Adonis, Hermes, Tannhauser. Venus's first, most famed intrigue, her affair with Mars, is related with great insight and sympathy: from this narration the wronged husband, Vulcan, emerges the hero, and Mars is shown...