Word: gales
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...Kirtley F. Mather, Dr. Ed Parejas of the University of Geneva, and twenty-two students. Of the latter, the great majority were Harvard undergraduates, with whom were enrolled Marshall Schalk, '29, John Hammond, Jr., '29, Rollin H. Norris, '29, C. W. Waldron, '10, Bradford Bissell, Cornell, '29, Harold W. Gale, Trinity '27, Forbes Hutchins, McGill, '30, and Peter Matlock, Cornell...
...blinding rainstorm, in a gale strong enough to rip a ton of masonry from the grey and gothic west front of famed York Minster, Edward of Wales last week boarded the S. S. Kenilworth Castle at Southampton Docks, bound for Africa to resume the big game hunt which was interrupted 13 months ago by the critical illness of George V. Announced objective: the shooting of a two-horned rhinoceros, two or three male lions (H. R. H.'s previous bag contained only lionesses...
Aboard were Commen-clatore Ettore Modigliani.* as custodian of the pictures, and Signer Umberto Malossi, Fascist Police Inspector-General. Off the coast of Portugal the da Vinci wired that she was caught in a gale, then for two days while she was tossed and harried no word was heard. Captain Angelo Sturlese was on the bridge for 72 hours, the SOS of other ships sounding in his ears. When the Italian steamer Senatore Dali, foundering nearby, sent an SOS, Captain Sturlese despatched his tug to her. Dr. Modigliani in an ecstasy of apprehension made repeated trips to the hold...
...wind at a height of six miles. Up and down he frisked to study its prevalent direction. It blew steadily from the west. Visionary. Apollo Soucek foresaw the day of multi-motored transports roaring out of the west at these heights, driven by this raging gale, across the continent in half the standard 30 hrs. now needed...
...keeps its vigil with a measured thrum- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" And never in the records has a wrong beat come- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" A brave and his bride once went for a sail And both of them perished in the terrible gale: But all that was heard was a single turn- There was just one beat of the Indian drum. The folks of the village were sad and glum- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" They said to their chief: "What's the matter with the drum?" "Turn, turn, turn...