Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...employees. To keep going, the line has resorted to all kinds of makeshifts-it tied the bombed passenger-freighter St. Louis to a dock, ran it as a restaurant-hotel. It has also been operating a mail-order agency, a resort hotel, an insurance company and a fleet of harbor tugs...
From birth to death, every normal person carries in his bowels billions of rod-shaped micro-organisms which the doctors call coliform bacteria. Usually these little "bugs" do no harm; in fact, their presence is considered normal. But every now & then, infants dying of epidemic diarrhea are found to harbor coliform bacteria which seem to be abnormal. Last week, every baby born in Port Huron Hospital, Mich., and every patient admitted, was being tested for a suspected killer of this type which had been isolated there, for the first time...
...wealthy Chicago family, Princetonian Poole (voted "Most Useless" by his class of '02) submerged himself in Manhattan's lower East Side to gather material on how the other half lived, won fame a dozen years later with a tale of New York's poor (The Harbor...
...mythical Hebridean island of Todday, off the Scottish coast, the middle of the war brought a calamity "wor-r-rse than Hitler-r's bombs": there was no more whisky. Then a U.S.-bound vessel carrying 50,000 cases of Scotch ran aground off Todday's craggy harbor. All that stood between the parched islanders and a joyously illegal salvage job was the bumbling Englishman (Basil Radford) who, as the island's Home Guard captain, felt constrained to enforce the letter...
Despite his amazing record, Grover has averaged only slightly over $2000 a year since he became a full-scale professional in 1947. Last summer, for instance, he placed in four major races: third in the 20 mile world championship at Lake Ontario in July, first in the Boston Harbor Swim in August, third in the two mile race at Lake Ontario later in that month, and first in the endurance test at Lake George in September...