Word: keeled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...again to climb to the roof of Parliament, for she took her departure for Russia at midnight to escape rising winds. Over the Baltic Sea it was a cold, foggy night. Unprotected in the airship's gondola, unable even to sit down save on camp-stools or the keel, the staff made a bad night of it. About noon the fogs cleared, but radio communication with earth was lost. Dipping, the pilot dropped a note to gaping peasants: "Where are we? North or south of the Gulf of Finland? If south, please hold arms aloft; if north, cross arms...
...Thrasymachus, Mr. Joad deals with morals after the fashion of one salvaging a sunken ship. Only yardarms of convention rise above the water, but when Mr. Joad has raised the hull he exhibits how absurdly the masts are set in the vessel's keel, how outlandish is the gear and rigging fashioned haphazard by ancient social navigators. He is very scornful indeed of "that part of human nature which expresses itself in what is called morality," but vitiates his discussion by the employment of flippant paradox, unrepresentative facts and overstrained, somewhat splenetic deductions. For example, this very affecting statement...
...Britain. On the tip of the Cornwall peninsula it lay, between Land's End and the Scilly Isles, until the ocean rose up and swallowed it. Today, "old fisherman still boast that when the sea is still, they can hear its church bells ring far down beneath the rippling keel...
...French liner Paris, bearing storm scars, notables, a squad of German engineers and a new German device for deep-sea sounding with which the engineers had experimented on the way over from Havre. This device consisted of a gun on the port side, a microphone abreast on the keel's starboard side, a dial on the bridge. The gun fired a cartridge overside, which exploded a fathom under water. The microphone registered this explosion's last echo from the bottom, permitting the depth to be computed in fathoms...
Almost simultaneously, the Newport News Shipbuilding Co. announced that it would lay the keel of the "largest merchant vessel ever contracted for in an American shipyard", a ship for the Panama Pacific Line, over 600 feet in length, to carry 745 passengers...