Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knows just where the Colossus of Rhodes stood, that great bronze statue once spanning the harbor mouth which was one of Philo of Byzantium's Seven Wonders of the World. It was built by Charles of Lindus in 280 B. c., crashed in an earthquake 56 years later. For 880 years bronze fragments of it littered the harbor of Rhodes. Finally in 656 A. D. the tidy Saracens after capturing the island sold the remnants to a junk dealer, who carted them away on 900 camels...
Along the east waterfront of Manhattan one day in 1844, sailors and loungers beheld a startling sight. It was as if Trinity Church had skimmed down Wall Street and now was riding the waves of the harbor on a barge. Actually a seagoing House of God complete with steeple and flag, heated and lighted by stove and oil lamps, the floating phenomenon was the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour (see cut). Built by the Young Men's Church Missionary Society, it was meant to attract mariners who would never worship ashore at landlubbers' churches. The church existed...
Certainly there is no moral or religions reason why Weld Boat House should not be open Sunday. Rowing is the most wholesome and celibate of sports--it inspires the contemplative mood. Nor is there firm foundation for the assumption that most students spend their week-ends at Bar Harbor. The financial consideration, ever present, would be solved by those who, having no participation tickets, would have to stand the fee. But rather than attempt to belabor this sabbatical restraint of navigation on logical grounds, it is better to regard it as one of those conditions which are unsupported by rational...
...ashore to Insull's aid. Her passport did not have a Turkish visa and they refused. Desperate, she tried to push past them at the ship's rail. One of them seized her shoulder. She wrenched to get away, toppled backwards, slid over the rail into the harbor. She came up blowing the foul water from her mouth. A sailor with a boat hook fished her out. They carried her prostrate and drenched back to her cabin and the Rumania steamed off carrying her back to Athens...
...last week, Germans were accused of secret gunrunning to Moroccan tribesmen when France marched in and occupied Fez. As last week, Sidi Fra Achmed Schaefer Arksis was supposed to be involved. Only 100 mi. from Ifni, where the former warship Delphin was theoretically bound last week, is the harbor of Agadir. There in 1911 anchored the German warship Panther "to protect German interests." For many days war was very close...