Word: leeward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instruction for "landing" the biggest possible swordfish aboard a dory in the open ocean: "Fasten his tail over the gunwale to the afterthwart; put his sword over your shoulder; put your big finger in his eyeball; grab him with your other hand near his tail; when she rolls to leeward pull hard as the boat rolls back, and the 'Cot damn fish he got to come...
...atmosphere of trivial, though insinuating misunderstandings, some definite attempt at an analysis of the situation by accredited representatives of both student bodies and an attempt by them to offer remedial suggestions based on such an analysis should be made. Thus the necessary conclusion to the tempest which has leeward over this last weekend must be defined as the appointment of a committee by the Princeton Senior Council and the Harvard Student Council which can cooperate in an effort to find the facts of the case and to act thereon...
Then Mr. Beebe sailed towards the Caribbean and, within the Leeward Islands, began to investigate Saba Bank in shallow waters 36 to 2,700 feet deep. A green and yellow octopus, an irridescent bronze colored fish found living inside a giant red sea-cucumber, butterfly fish, trigger fish and porcupine fish were procured as well as whole colonies of coral and sponges...
...recognized as the chief figure in at least four novels: Marion Crawford's To Leeward; Hamilton Aide's Voyage of Discovery, and two others, Mrs. Harry St. John and Ralph Saint Claire, by Count Zuboff (who hanged himself...
...Chesapeake 'Bug Eye' lay to leeward. I called to the man aboard to tell us where we were. He put for shore, got out, ran inland Meanwhile I landed, went to the store for provisions. A crowd had gathered. It seemed that the man from the boat had told a story of heard seeing a it go buoy 'puff, going puff, against puff,' the tide, smelled sulphur. Then the devil had come out of the smokestack ! "On these early boats, three white mice were members of every crew - to detect gas. When they keeled over...