Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bought by Banker Frederick Henry Prince of Boston and refitted according to the new rules. But she is not considered a possibility for anything more than trial runs against other contenders yet to be built. It was common talk that Harold Vanderbilt, honeymooning last week on the Mediterranean, had long ago put his Designer William Starling Burgess to work on plans for a new racer to succeed Enterprise...
First company to be hauled up on the Senate's dissecting table was Export Steamship, a flashy young hustler born in 1919. Most travelers know that American Export Lines operates a fair-to-middling passenger service out of New York through the Mediterranean to the Levant (Palestine, Syria, Egypt), that its best boats all have names beginning with ''Ex" (Excalibur, Exochorda, Exeter, Excambion), the first of which Mrs. Herbert Hoover christened. Senator Black's investigation disclosed the following about Export Steamship's past and present...
...presence was once thought to prove that a land link between Europe and Africa existed as late as the Pleistocene period. But scientists grew doubtful when they could find no monkey fossils in Gibraltar's honeycomb of caves. Natives explained that easily: the apes had a secret sub-Mediterranean tunnel by which they returned to Africa to die. Scientists decided that the apes must have been imported by Romans or Moors...
...fire on the speedboat of U.S.-born Raymond Patenôtre, French UnderSecretary of National Economy, forced him and 15 guests to pump fire extinguishers frantically, then leap into the Mediterranean. Last to leap was 68-year-old Lady Mendl (onetime Elsie de Wolfe, famed interior decorator), who obeyed only when her husband cried: "Damn it all, jump!" Towed 150 yards to shore by the Marquis d'Alemeida, said she: "That 10 minutes' work with the fire extinguishers was the only manual labor most of the men had done in their lives...
...tags with data on where and how the tuna was caught, its size and condition, the Aquarium Vasco da Gama in Lisbon will pay a reward, amount unstated. In previous experiments, Portugal's tagged tuna have been caught in the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean. But the tuna is a world wanderer. One of this year's 60 might well turn up off Montauk, Beach Haven or Miami...