Word: landsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September 21 the storm reached Long Island. More destructive hurricanes have bombarded U. S. shores, but never has a hurricane struck a region so thickly populated and so unprepared. Inattentive to weather reports, many a landsman had his first intimation that the wind and rain were more than an equinoctial storm, when he had a "funny feeling'' in his ears-the effect of sudden low pressure, like that of going up in an elevator...
...Akron, Mr. Litchfield enjoys saying, his dislike of a landsman's life "forced him up in the air." He made his first balloon flight in 1911 and as superintendent spurred his company into the business of making balloons. Yet he never lost his love of salt water. He makes an ocean voyage at least once a year, keeps a summer home at Plymouth, Mass. His spacious estate in Akron's smart West Hill section is named "Anchorage." The gate is flanked by two great anchors; the rooms are filled with many a marine trophy. But the weathervane...
...Every landsman in Russia who has worked on a ship of any kind within the past ten years was ordered last week by the Commissariat of Labor to leave his earthly job, report for duty on the "water front...