Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fouled blocks at the head of the mainmast. For a nerve-racking hour Skipper Mitchell headed Finisterre back into the wind, riding under jigger alone to keep his boat steady while a crew member was hauled into the rigging to make repairs, and other boats slipped away toward the horizon...
...Bean Geste. Entering talkies as Bulldog Drummond (1929), Colman soon established the cultured air of weary British dignity that became as crisp and negotiable as a sterling note. His best-known films followed in the late '30s and early '40s-A Tale of Two Cities, Lost Horizon, The Prisoner of Zenda, Random Harvest-but his only Oscar came with A Double Life in 1947. The narrator's role in The Story of Mankind (1957) completed his list of more than 100 film credits...
Born. To Edith Kingdon Gould Martin, 37, great-granddaughter of "Robber Baron" Jay Gould, sometime child poetess, harpist, actress (Agatha Christie's Hidden Horizon), World War II lieutenant (j.g.) in the WAVES, and Guy Martin, 47, lawyer: their first daughter, fourth child; in Washington, D.C. Name: Edith Maria Theodosia Burr. Weight...
...Over the Horizon. At week's end the government advances continued with the seizure of the Rengat-Lirik area, headquarters of the big, U.S.-owned Standard Vacuum Oil Co. and the last major oil installation remaining in rebel hands. Colonel Simbolon had finally pushed through to the vital road junction of Pematang-siantar, joining up with Nangolan's battered forces from Lake Toba and the rebel column from Tapanuli. but he appeared more concerned with defense than with another attack on Medan...
...weather turned bad again, but the caravan wound without disaster down a glacier on the edge of the ice cap. The Sno-Cats crossed the last crevasses in a swirling blizzard, and reached fairly level ice. The buildings of Scott Station loomed ahead on the white horizon, with their promise of hot baths and letters from home. When the first congratulations were over. Dr. Fuchs admitted that he had made one miscalculation. He had estimated in advance that he would need 100 days to cross Antarctica; he had made...