Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offer you at once welcome and bon vonaae. May favoring breezes and kindly seas make your homeward journey pleasant and may you always remember that, however difficult the public business upon which you have been engaged, you went out to your ship from the Lotus Club amid the cheers and good wishes of sincere and affectionate friends of France...
While learned British scientists expatiated at Southampton a new Ice Age that will drive civilization to the earth's poles for warmth, (see above), Commander Donald B. MacMillan and his aids steamed homeward along the shores of Greenland from their attempted exploration of the Polar Sea by air, (TIME, June 22 et sec.) Their work had been of a kind which, if the prophets are right, will be rated by future generations-if not with the exploits of Columbus and Magellan- certainly with those of Hinton (Atlantic-crossing aeronaut), Leigh, Wade and Nelson (globe-fliers) and Eckener (Atlantic crossing...
...homeward bound" pennant 170*ft. long, decked with 13 stars, some of which had perforce been snipped out of pink lingerie, wriggled and writhed in the breezes of New York harbor. Beneath it, no whit discomfited by the exuberant blasts of a steam whistle, there moved toward an uptown dock: Jeweled crabs, fish with eight "hands," fish with transparent panes set into their stomachs, fish with navigation lights, sex-appeal lights, food-luring lights, fish with folding films of luminous bacteria, a devilfish with a beam of 18 ft., parasite fish with suckers on their heads for clinging...
...Australia, Premier Bruce announced, last week, the Parliament will adjourn during the fleet's visit (July 23-Aug. 6). On the homeward voyage, detachments of the fleet will scour the Pacific. Tahiti, Tai-o-Hae, Nukuhiva, the Marquesas and Galapagos, as well as practically every Pacific possession of the U. S. except Guam, will be visited...
...committee, in pursuance of their commission, proceed to report some particulars that escaped their personal observation. The cows on the common, we are told, discovered sensible marks of agitation. Some of them left the ground and proceeded homeward, the rest gathered around a person, who was crossing the common at the time, and followed him with apparent anxiety, as if soliciting protection...