Word: prow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raids, both successful. On one occasion, 14 German bombers, unattended by fighters, spotted a squadron of battleships and cruisers accompanied by an aircraft carrier. Upon the carrier the Germans dropped one 1,100-lb. German air torpedo. Two 550-pounders hit a battleship on the prow and amidships. The carrier was "destroyed" (they did not say "sunk"), the battleship "crippled." On another raid next day they flew to the Isle of May at the mouth of the Firth of Forth. There they struck the bow of a British cruiser (Washington Treaty 10,000-ton type) with a 550-lb. bomb...
...Newport News, Va. one noon last week Anna Eleanor Roosevelt cracked a bottle of U. S. champagne over the steel prow of the biggest, costliest (34,000-ton, $17,000,000) passenger ship ever made in the U. S., christened her America. As 30,000 well-wishers gave a lusty cheer, America glided sedately down ways slicked with 45,000 Ibs. of grease. Proudest man there was Chairman of the Maritime Commission Rear Admiral Emory Scott ("Jerry") Land, under whose supervision United States Lines' big* liner had been constructed. At scoffers he scoffed: "For the dogmatic and somewhat cynical...
...wharf friends and kin of the Itacare's passengers braved the ugly weather to greet them. They watched the steamer strain closer, her prow dishing up small seas at every step. Suddenly a huge wave whammed her, sideslipped her into a deep sea-trough. Next instant she dived prow-first. Down she sank, spewing out 36 of her passengers & crew, drowning the rest. It was one of the worst sea disasters of recent years...
...largest fountain in the world. Its plaster excrescences shone in the palace-girt Court of Honor. All Victorian eyes viewed it with admiration no less for its artistic beauties than because it showed: "Columbia sitting aloft on a Barge of State, heralded by Fame at the prow, oared by the Arts and Industries, guided by Time at the helm, and drawn by seahorses of Commerce. . . . Horns of Plenty pour their abundance over the gunwales. . . . In the basin of the fountain four pair of seahorses, mounted by riders who represent Modern Intelligence, draw the barge, while babes and mermaids disport themselves...
...extravagantly powerful Chace-like finish, the Crimson varsity flashed across the finish line nearly two lengths ahead of the Midshipmen in the final race of the afternoon. The last stretch of the mile and three-quarters course provided an almost mirror-like surface for the final struggle in a prow-and-prow duel between the oarsmen from the Severn and from Cambridge which Harvard...