Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will France in 1798 and 1799, the Coast Guard cutters captured 18, unaided, and assisted in the capture of two others; that a Coast Guard vessel made the first capture during the War of 1812; that piracy, which prevailed during the first part of the nineteenth century in the Gulf of Mexico, owed its suppression chiefly to the Coast Guard; that the cutters participated actively in the Seminole Indian War, the Mexican War, the Paraguayan Expedition in 1858, and, in the Civil...
...Taking the Bible itself as an authority dissipates many of the difficulties which threaten to make a gulf between religion and science...
...Historical Society (Columbus), and Archaeologist Gerard Fowke, of Maysville, Ky. The remains seemed to be those of royal personages among the ancient Mound Builders-a late Stone Age race that threw, up its totemic burial tumuli from the Rockies to the Atlantic and the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico...
Thirty years ago there was between the Consular and Diplomatic services an impassable gulf. No nice sweet-sixteener would have fancied herself in the former, however graphically she might have pictured herself married to the latter...
...coast guard established a strict blockade along the Atlantic coast to break up the rum row that stretched from New London, Conn., to the New Jersey coast. It succeeded. Rum row practically disappeared. But it has reappeared in the Gulf of Mexico, furnishing gulf ports with many kinds of dangerous drinkables. Last week the Coast Guard announced that it would extend its blockade in that direction, operating from Biloxi against the rum runners from Bimini...