Word: piere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plus a hurricane, without harm. But there are others who claim differently. Chief of these is Dr. Bailey Willis, an 80-year-old Stanford geology professor with a handsome white beard. Two years ago a diver, working on the preliminary survey for the Bridge's great south pier 1,000 ft. from shore came up to declare that the rock was "as soft as plum pudding." Dr. Willis devoted months to proving that the rock on which the pier would rest was crumbly serpentine "unstable to a degree likely to endanger the bridge." This blast was apparently the reason...
...North German Lloyd-Hamburg-American pier in the Hudson River, 10,000 sober-faced Germans gathered for services over 28 flag-draped coffins while a U. S. Navy blimp circled overhead...
...double quartet in "Jagdlied" made a surprise move by singing on the western pier of the steps apart from their fellows, who hissed disapproval. But Conductor Woodworth was so pleased by the effect that he is considering putting the double quartet across the quadrangle on the steps of Memorial Chapel in the second Yard concert next Tuesday...
...Warped to its tremendous pier at Southampton last week was the Queen Mary, bearing the first contingent of U. S. visitors to the Coronation, prominent among them James Watson Gerard of the official U. S. delegation. The U. S. press, feeling knee breeches unmanly except for sliding bases or playing golf, was in a characteristic, hayseedy dither over whether Special Envoy Gerard would wear court dress. Mr. Gerard, Wartime Minister to Germany, opined that he would...
...himself hailed as a hero by British sentimentalists (TIME, April 26). Changing his course at sea, Potato Jones last week was heading not for Bilbao but Alicante. Before he could reach it another British tramp, the Seven Seas Spray, had already run the gantlet and warped to a Bilbao pier, after having been halted, then wished unofficial Godspeed by a British destroyer. Reported her Captain, W. H. Roberts...