Word: hoists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finance (at $30,000,000 for a chain of five between the U. S. and Europe),† the Westphalen is too small to allow planes to land on her deck. If the water is smooth it is a simple matter for the Westphalen-or any surface ship-to hoist a flying boat aboard. In rough weather this is dangerous as well as difficult. The Westphalen employs an ingenious system...
...whole mackerel, and sit down to wait. He was eating a sandwich when "the tuna hit like an earthquake and then started out to sea like a torpedo." Fisherman Low braced himself in his leather harness for a fight that, was to last five hours, while his captain quickly hoisted anchor to let the fish tow the skiff around the ocean. For a mile he went out to sea, then turned and ran back, staying mostly on the surface. After an hour and one-half he shook himself so violently that the hook came out of his mouth-but caught...
...drama about some denizens of Manhattan's Tombs Detention Prison, opened the night after three young prisoners had escaped from the Tombs, up a secret dumb-waiter shaft, down a rope of prison bedsheets bound with bedspring wire, in the Tombs' first important jailbreak since 1926. Hoist by this factitious timeliness, Crucible turned out to be a hoarse and inexpert melodrama. Plot: a philanthropist and onetime gambler takes an interest in the girl's painting, offers the boy a job. Audi- ences soon become aware of the philanthropist's real objectives: 1) to get his three...
...which used to call gleemen to rehearsal 60 years ago. Scholarly Dr. Richard Cabot told of the Club's history. Dr. Koussevitzky made a praiseful speech. The Club sang Bach, Handel, Palestrina and an ambitious "Dirge for Two Veterans" written in sultry, modernistic vein by British Composer Gustav Hoist who taught last year...
Beer has come in, quietly and calmly, to the delight of its protagonists; the calamity howlers are confounded, and hoist by their own petard; an emasculated Bacchus reigns in the Hub. This lack of the predicted drunkenness has been touted in the papers and by the people; but the fact that the advent of beer was attended by every conceivable trouble save that rather pleasant one of inebriety has been generally glossed over. The control measure itself was passed at the last minute, after the legislators, doddering cheerfully along in pursuit of such problems as the feasibility of serving beer...