Word: rescuer
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...operators who stand by their instruments to the last, tapping out distress signals. There is always the chance that another craft just over the horizon will pick up the little clicking cries that tell the name of the disabled ship, the latitude and longitude of its position. Often the rescuer will arrive in time to save those who have been dropped over the side of the sinking vessel in bobbing lifeboats. Among them he probably will not find the wireless operator who has held to his post, exhausting every possibility of communication...
...Stanley's comrades reached him in the water, but soon both were sinking. Toward them came then a droning roar, a splash, a gliding swish, and strong hands reaching down to hold their heads above water until a third rescuer, the Quartermaster's launch, sputtered up to take the two gulping, gasping privates aboard...
...island castle of Loch Leven, Mary's charm brought her a rescuer, George Douglas, who loved her, and later, in an English prison, she was wooed by the Duke of Norfolk and pledged herself to him. These were the last despairing attempts of a doomed woman to regain her freedom, to save her life, to win a crown...
...than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." On the other side is stamped a likeness of famed philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. The discs are the Carnegie Hero Medals. Last week one of them?a silver one?was awarded to Edda Mussolini, able swimmer, rescuer of an unknown woman from drowning (TIME, Aug 17), young daughter of famed Benito Mussolini...
...entertainment moderately for some weeks before its Manhattan opening. On that latter occasion the votes were generally unfavorable. The plot brings the inevitable small town girl to New York, pictures her struggles and her adoption by three bachelors.^ Later she bursts forth as a movie star and marries her rescuer bachelor. The company is only mildly talented...