Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following a map drawn by the late Admiral George Dewey, the S. S. Maryland fetched up and hove to off Cape San Lucas, lower California. Two launches were lowered for a late-afternoon fishing expedition. Captain Victor A. Kimberley, the Maryland's commander, put off in a third boat to act as a patrol against unimaginable dangers from the desolate Mexican shore. In his hands rested the safety of his country's President-elect...
...Friday evening cinema show on deck, a mustang wave leaped over the rail and soused part of the audience. An hour later, the Maryland was "in it"-a nor' caster in the Gulf of Tehuantepec ("Hatteras of the Pacific") roaring over from the Caribbean across Guatemala and lower Mexico. One comber smashed a port in the Hoovers' quarters in the fantail stern, flooding their dining room. "This is terrible," gasped an attaché. "Oh, I've seen worse," shrugged Mr. Hoover. He was up, wandering about in a bathrobe, several times during the night. The clouds broke...
...hours Assassin Toral and his lawyers explained to the Supreme Court Judges why they should set aside the verdict of Death pronounced upon Toral by a lower court (TIME...
...Chicago University, restricted their work to the houses which belonged to the last occupation of Nuzi, destroyed by fire about 500 B. C. They made only tentative penetrations below the floor level, but these sufficed to show that important ruins lay underneath, dating from earlier occupations. In these lower depths we may hope to find objects of finer quality than anything yet found on the site, as has often occurred in Babylonian exploration...
Like family retainers moving about on a lower floor awaiting the death of their master and the inevitable reading of his will, associates of William Bramwell Booth chattered among themselves last week while William Bramwell Booth "sank," "held his own," "took a turn for the better," "took a turn for the worse." Since 1912 General William Bramwell Booth has been generalissimo of the international Salvation Army, and the chatterers wondered anxiously whether another Booth, specifically his sister Evangeline Cory Booth*, would succeed...