Word: inlet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flying priest, this was almost a routine appeal. But it was not so routine that Father Schulte, as he flew north with his mechanic, Brother Beaudoin, omitted to inform the New York Times about his activities. Father Schulte dashed 360 miles to Chesterfield Inlet, found the only doctor ill, pushed on, was forced down by fog at Igloolik, reached Baffin Land to find Father Cochard still living, bundled him into the plane. Reported Father Schulte to the Times, after he got his colleague safely to a hospital in Chesterfield Inlet: "Father Cochard was not troubled with airsickness and was very...
While Premier Pattullo was challenged to resign and stand in a by-election on the unemployment issue, the sit-downers crossed Burrard Inlet by boat, hitchhiked or rode the rods to descend on the dignified, heavily policed little capital city of Victoria, on the southeast tip of Vancouver Island...
...here & there in the mass of anonymous writing, individual passages stick in the memory: the description of industrial Lawrence, Mass., of the slums of Washington, D. C. that lie within sight of the Capitol; the list of Whitmanesque place names-Corncake Inlet, Money Island, Frying Pan Shoals-in The Intercoastal Waterway; the account of Fort Fisher, in the same volume, where the sea, nibbling away at the old Confederate breastworks, occasionally washes up the skeleton of a soldier...
Amazed were greybeard fishermen of Hampstead and Wilmington, N. C., last week, by the fatback '"miracle" of nearby Topsail Inlet. The menhaden, or fatback, is a herring-like fish, not usually eaten but valuable for oil and manure. It grows to about 18 inches, feeds on microscopic sea life, breeds near shore in enormous shoals...
...last week, fishermen put out in a small boat into Topsail Inlet, a cove varying in width from 1,300 yards to a mile, surrounded by flat, marshy, wind-raked country. Some distance offshore they came on a school of fatbacks so dense that their boat could make no headway. One fisherman plunged an oar into the writhing mass, and as far down as he could reach felt fish. The boat turned back. An onshore wind drove the fish, alive and dead, onto surrounding beaches, until fishermen estimated $300,000 worth had been killed. A. W. King, 65-year...