Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pith-helmeted Britishers, suckled on the strong wine of an imperial tradition, reared to carry a white man's burden without stooping, made rendezvous at their Hongkong clubs, waited the word of command. A cruiser, a team of gunboats, coaled up in the harbor...
...away in an official automobile to the naval school, while crowds skipped away from under the car's wheels as it bore down upon them. The official party boarded the yacht Adhara and steamed through the traffic of the port, while for 30 minutes every vessel in the harbor screamed its siren in delight. A landing was made at La Blanco, Frigorifico, a great "meat factory...
...detailed his plans for retreating down the Greenland coast in advance of the winter ice-floes already making in Smith Sound. At every step, the Far North had rebuked the trespassers with unusually inclement weather. In July, ice-floes delayed the Bowdoin and Peary as far south as Battle Harbor, Labrador. When they reached Etah, they found that heavy winter storms had pared down the beach and piled it with boulders until it was impossible for the planes to take off from land. This cut down their cruising radius from 1,000 to 700 mi. and made necessary a food...
...cruising radius of the seaplanes out of Etah was cut down from 1,000 to 700 miles by the absence of a smooth stretch of beach in Etah harbor, the planes not being able to rise from the water with as heavy loads as they could lift from land. The round trip to Cape Hubbard and back is some 600 miles, leaving a margin of safety which Commander R. E. Byrd judged insufficient...
...what wishes they harbor in their ghostly hearts were revealed last week by the police. They wish for magic powders potent to bring back an erring wife or husband; for herbs that will "Tie Down Goods" (i.e., keep the object of their affections from departing), for "Boss Fix Powders" (roots and simples that will keep an employer in a halcyon mood), for fusions that will win the heart of the most austere maiden. Throaty voices extol in music the virtues of such medicines...