Word: piere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond was sitting at the end of a grey stone pier dangling his legs out over the water's edge like a little boy. In mind he was as happy as the blithest child of ten, for free at last of Divisional he had come down to the seashore to watch the last splashes of paint go on his boat before she went over into the water for another season. Clad in a blue Brittany shirt, bleached and streaked with white from long hours in the sun, knee length shorts that showed pock-marks of paint of as many colors...
...whittled away, gazing out over the water to the other side of the harbor. On the shore he could see a variety of piers and warehouses, the steel and concrete state pier, used by fishermen and merchants, the black and sooty landings, piled high, for coaling, the brown and weather beaten stages where sailing ships once docked to discharge their cargo of cotton and whale oil. Somehow this sight always filled him with a feeling that the was a part of the past of New England, a deep-seated feeling that his love of the sea, indulged only like...
Fishing on Recreation Pier, St. Petersburg, Fla., three years ago, W. E. Ervin of Crawfordsville, Miss., dropped his eyeglasses to the bottom of Tampa Bay. Fishing from the same spot last fortnight, Angler Ervin fished up his glasses...
...shakedown cruise." Across the dock from the Philadelphia lay the ancient battle sloop. Hartford, which Rear Admiral Farragut comm.anded in the Civil War battle of Mobile Bay and the capture of New Orleans. Cried the President to Rear Admiral William Henry Allen, standing with his staff on the pier...
When the S.S. California was built for the Panama Pacific Line in 1928, she was the largest (17,833 tons) commercial ship ever constructed on U. S. ways, the largest in the world with electric propulsion. Last week, when the California tied up at Pier 61, Manhattan, near her idle sisters, Pennsylvania and Virginia, it was the first time the three vessels had ever been in port together, the last time any one of them would slip a hawser for Panama Pacific...