Word: landsman
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...horizon the instructor placed a scale model of a Jap ship. Black ship on black sea. Gradually the electrician turned on the dawn effect. To a landsman all was still dark, but one of the lookouts sang: "Ship! Bearing zero zero five." The black ship took faint shape as the light increased almost imperceptibly. "I think it's a carrier." It was. The artificial night was still black enough to make a cat stumble, but the lookout called the class and course of the enemy warcraft...
...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...
...feature of the modern motor boat is its tendency to incorporate as much as possible of the simplicity, ease of handling and shiny finish of the motor car. Motor boats are sold not to sailors but to motor car owners and their families. To build a boat that a landsman can operate-and that in most cases he never will operate out of sight of land-to build an engine that is as nearly as possible foolproof, to upholster softly, use bright colors and plenty of nickel: these are the present day objec tives of the motor boat designer. Thus...