Word: hove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slumped in a chair on the deck of the Mayflower. There in 1930 Herbert Hoover gloomily watched a gloomy and debilitated flotilla go by. Exercise M. Behind the Fleet, as it steamed toward its New York review, lay long weeks of hard work and intensive maneuver. Ever since it hove out of San Diego April 9. hustling, pink-cheeked Admiral David Foote Sellers, its Commander-in-Chief, had put it through almost continuous strategic and tactical exercises. All the way down the Mexican coast it played at war games. A mimic attack had struck at the Pacific entrance...
...meter run--Won by Ellis (N); second, John B. White; third, Claude J. Hove; fourth, Howard S. Derrickson; fifth, Eaton (BC); time, 2 minutes. 1-5 second...
...hove not seen "Forty-Second Street," "Gold-Diggers of 1933", or "Footlight Parade", you will enjoy the long, elaborate dance numbers, interpolated gags, and songs of "Wonder Bar". The plot, which is, of course, unimportant, includes an affair, a stabbing, a suicide, and a happy ending...
...British naval sloop Milford, Vice Admiral Edward Radcliffe Garth Russell Evans commanding, hove to in the bleak South Atlantic one day last week to ride out a 70 m.p.h. storm. Brave Admiral Evans could not have found a lonelier spot. Full 2,000 mi. northeast lay Bechuanaland where last September he did his duty as a Briton and an officer in banishing a South African chief who had punished a white man (TIME, Sept. 25 et seq.). Four thousand miles farther on was Britain. Three thousand miles to the south was the South Pole where he had been...
...Merlin Hall Aylesworth and an English osteopath named W. H. J. Oxenham were to make up a foursome for an afternoon of golf, the osteopath would probably win. What would make such a victory remarkable is the fact that Osteopath Oxenham is totally blind. Last week at the West Hove Club near Brighton, England he was awarded a handicap of 20, which approximates the handicaps allotted to Messrs. Chrysler, Goldberg, Aylesworth, many & many another duffer who has good eyes to keep on the ball...