Word: fog
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...result of the Navy Department's decision to so equip its seaplanes undoubtedly aided the success of the enterprise, for the NC-3, lost in the sea and fog near the Azores, all her engines stalled, wet and cold, would never have been able to taxi into Ponte del Gads, under her own power without the assistance of mechanical means for starting her propellers...
...years they have spent their days and nights in foreign waters sweeping the seas of more than fifty thousand mines that the commerce of the world might pass in safety. This was the work that called for perhaps the sheerest courage of the war. Ploughing undramatically through the dangerous, fog-swept North Sea, constantly in danger of being wiped out by the deadly, unseen mine or the cowardly submarine, they made it possible for the capital ships of the Allied navies to keep the Germans bottled up and the sea-lanes open...
...Conn., June 18.--The University crew spent the morning on board the "Viking," but returned to New London directly after lunch, on account of a thick fog. The trip from New London home was made in the "John Harvard," sufficient time being allowed, however, for a visit to the Navy Yard. The Freshmen went out in the "Roxana" to Norwich, returning home by way of Plum Island...
...early breaking of day on the wide ocean,' his awe at 'the cold and angry skies' and 'long heavy ugly seas' off the Cape, who have seen with him the 'malignant' brightness of the lightning in the tropical storm, the yellow California sunshine and the gray California fog, and the slow stately motion of the groaning Antartic icebergs with the whirling snow about their summits...
...author had been less vague and more self-disciplined, it might have been easier to share his vision. Mr. Leffingwell's two poems, especially "Mt. Auburn at Dawn," show a lyric talent reminiscent of Noyes. But the best poem, and the best piece in this issue, is "Fog in the City" by Mr. B. P. Clark--a bit of "free verse" by a real poet...