Word: foundland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They started at dawn, electing a direct course instead of the great circle over New Foundland and Ireland. Storms battered them southward from the start. 500 miles out they were sighted by a passenger ship. They were seen no more that day, that night. Crowds waiting at Le Bourget field, Paris, turned away, glum, morose...
...service to the State. But we may come to it. And why shouldn't we? The stones of Grub Street are still as flinty as they were in Johnson's day, when the adolescent Doctor was forced to hie him to eating-houses where the back of a New foundland dog served the patrons for a serviette. If prizes can rescue some native Arthur Machen from drudgery ? give comparative freedom and leisure for so much as a year to some unrecognized Sherwood Ander son?by all means let us have prizes...
...across when the ice broke up. They multiplied there so regularly that my original three hundred, though I sold a good number and killed a good number for food, mounted up to fifteen hundred in a few years. The sole cause of failure was the refusal of the New-foundland government of that day to give me the protection that I had to have from poachers, many poor people needing food living all around the little peninsular on which I had them, and irresponsible schooner men in summer being able to land and shoot the deer, from whom the number...
...Stride wants a man, starting near the end of June, to serve as engineer on the chuck-boat with which he cruises during the greater part of the whole summer, along the 70 miles of New-foundland coast that comprise his district. During the cruising there will be a good deal of opportunity for fishing and shooting...