Word: gales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...study English, and to enable them to visit Oxford, Cambridge and the cathedral towns of England, were awarded to the following students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Theodore Merryman Hatfield of Evanston, Ill., Edward Buell Hungerford A. M. '22 of New Britain, Conn., Robert Gale Noyes A. M. '23 of Norwich, Con., John Webster Spargo of Kirkwood, Mo., Arthur Sprague '19 of York Village...
...Donabey, Methodist father of ten, Governor of Ohio, who shared with Governor Smith of New York the distinction of having weathered the Republican gale of 1924 (TIME, Nov. 17), last week vetoed a bill which would have compelled all public school teachers to read ten verses of Scripture to the pupils every school day, and all pupils above the fourth grade to memorize the Ten Commandments. The veto message referred to "the founders of our country...
...that it would rip still further. Men went aloft in sailor style, lowered a rope ladder over the bow, gather up the loose ends of the flapping cover and bunched them , together. They made untidy balls but prevented the fabric from ripping further. In the first burst of the gale, the ship traveled stern first for many miles, rolling constantly and threatening to head down into the water while the crew worked in life belts. Even when the return journey was possible, she sailed painfully at not more than ten miles an hour over the rough sea. When the airship...
...Zona Gale, The Biography of Blade. Editor Carl VanDoren. Century...
...contained. Candles left burning on the deck were not extinguished or knocked over. Unless persons on deck should be washed overboard by water thrown up by the explosions, no loss of life could possibly be caused by bombing of this sort. After these explosions, a three-days' gale came up; even after this the Washington was in such a condition that she could still be towed to port. Two airplanes tried to drop armor-piercing projectiles upon her from 4,000 feet. One plane, after eight trial flights, dropped its bomb in the water. The other plane, on its fourth...