Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago steamed out of San Pedro harbor one day last week, headed up the California coast to join the Navy Day ceremonies in San Francisco Bay. Off Point Sur, 110 mi. south of the Golden Gate, a dense fog closed around her. Suddenly just before the 8 o'clock morning watch was called, a large brown ship loomed out of the mists across her bow. The Chicago slackened speed, veered sharply to port. The brown ship scurried across her path, disappeared into the fog. Before the Chicago could swing her bow around again, a second ship, the British freighter...
...plot: A real Baron Munchausen, sailing into New York Harbor, cannot appear because he has heard that the husband of his mistress is on board. He exchanges identities with the ship's tailor, Jack Pearl, who promptly takes on a manager, Jimmy Durante. In a rain of ticker-tape, as thousands cheer, the two impostors ride expansively up Broadway. When Pearl recognizes the fundament of his Aunt Sophie who is washing a window, he plunges head-down in the automobile and Durante, with a vulgarity at once extravagantly bold and strangely shy, notes the family resemblance. In a broadcasting...
...officials of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N. J., whither the Einsteins were bound. When the Westernland entered New York Harbor it was met by a tugboat chartered by two of the Institute's trustees, Lawyer Herbert Maass and Edgar S. Bamberger, retired vice president of the famed Newark department store. With them they had a customs inspector, to get the Einsteins quietly off the ship. They had forgotten to bring an immigration officer. While they waited, news cameramen managed to snap the Einsteins-the Herr Doktor, bewildered, trying to shield himself by waving his violin case...
...Mayo of Durham, New Hampshire; Hill, Johnston Kingsley of New York City; Kent, John Seeger of Patterson, New York; Loomis, Edward A. Drew of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Middlesex, Theodore C. Osborne of Boston, Massachusetts; Milton, Rogers B. Horgan of Washington, D. C.; Noble & Greenough, Robert A. Little of Bar Harbor, Maine; St. George's, Walter R. Lucas, Jr. of Providence, Rhode Island; St. Mark's, John L. Lyman of Waltham, Massachusetts; St. Paul's, Willard H. Griffin of Manchester, New Hampshire; Thayer, Lee W. Mather of Randolph, Massachusetts...
...Lowell behind. Harvard's honored ex-president spent three days of July cruising from Mr. Desert Island in Maine, to Marlon on the Cape, and had so much animal spirits left when he arrived there that he insisted on rowing the rest of the schooner's crew around the Harbor in a dinghy. Exercise is essential to Dr. Lowell; walking on land, rowing on water...