Word: logbook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brig Sophie, of Portland, Me., wallowed for 119 days in Atlantic gales while the sickened French passengers grew more & more scandalized at the improvidence of American seamen. Items: the captain rarely reckoned their position, the ship carried no spare sailcloth to repair the rags she sailed by, the logbook covers had to be unraveled for thread to patch the sails, food and liquor were so carelessly stowed that quantities of both were lost. Americans, observed Moreau, "rely on luck more than on anything else in making a voyage...
...that the grand strategy of Men of Good Will was to "reflect a whole generation." That it does, as faithfully, as arbitrarily and almost as indiscriminately as a mirror set up in a public square. The Seventh of October takes its title from the last day in Romains' logbook, in Paris in 1933. Citizens yawn, rise, go to work. A girl visits her lover. An Englishman blushingly discusses sex. A priest talks about politics. Poincaré is ill, the U.S. debt is unpaid, Hitler is kicking up a row in Germany, and 25 years...
Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, British royal princesses, took a leaf from their sailor father's logbook. With 30 other girls of the Windsor Sea Rangers Troop, they went down to the sea for a few days in a motor torpedo boat. Elizabeth, 20, lit the galley fire, peeled potatoes, made breakfast. Margaret Rose, 15, scrubbed the deck, polished up the brass...
Stocky, weatherbeaten Robert Oliver Daniel Sullivan had more than 14,000 hours in his logbook, more than 3,200 of them in Pan Am's great Boeing clippers. But despite his long experience of sea and sky, he could not explain later what happened when he thundered over the dusk-bound estuary of the light-pricked Tagus, what went wrong as he squared away for his landing between the waterborne runway lights...
Playwright Anderson had just returned from watching the progress of U.S. soldiers in North Africa. At night's end he wrote in the logbook: "There is no longer the slightest danger of bombing or invasion. . . . Let us get rid of this wasteful and retarding defense setup of ours...