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Word: leadsman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1944-1944
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...days the ship crept along an invisible coast. A leather-faced man with icy blue eyes and a perpetual squint strained for the leadsman's cry. Out of the fog that shrouded the Arctic sea, the muffled call came back: "Seven fathoms. ..." Suddenly the leadsman's cry changed: "The bottom has gone away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE ARCTIC: Northwest Passage, 1944 | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

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