Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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West Injdies. Last week the Caribbean suddenly became still under a windless sky. Seabirds wheeled inland, crying. Small boats with flapping, empty sails were sculled to harbor. On the Virgin Islands natives took to their homes in the hills, jabbered warnings to each other. Voodoo priests crept about selling charms against death. Everywhere faces looked southeast...
...dangerous expedition to the southern ice continent. Happily for him, Commander Byrd was so impressed by his courage and excellent stamina that he has given him permission to stay with the expedition. Two white boys who stowed away were put off ere the ship got out of the harbor because sailors heard them arguing. The black boy goes. The promoters of the first trip to the moon had better examine their rocket carefully if they would make sure that no adventurous Negro is aboard...
Rear Admiral G. F. Hyde, commander-in-chief of the Royal Australian Navy, docked in New York harbor his flagship, the 10,000-ton Australia. His sailors did the city, the shows and Coney Island. He and some of his officers watched polo matches on Long Island. Then the Australia steamed away to pay a visit to the U. S. naval academy...
...cruiser Detroit swung into the Irish harbor of Kingstown last week, 40 bravely martial fortress guns went BOOM...
...Orcoma paused at the Spanish harbor of Santander, Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, came aboard, exchanged greetings with the sick secretary who was barely able to rise from his bed chair...