Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Squatting on a sand-bin in Whitehall, a 62-year-old Mrs. Heggs from the Isle of Wight sheltered her sandwiches, cigarets and a bottle of wine under her umbrella and declared: "I'm used to these all-night waits. I sat up for 24 hours to watch his father's Silver Jubilee procession. I claim to be the first arrival on the Coronation procession route...
Between seasons Colonel Wise once tested, and later compared with a shark's, the pull that a man can exert swimming against rod & reel. His figures for a 6 ft. 3 in. Princeton water poloist harnessed, and for young male Sand sharks of the same weight (200 lb.) hooked in the mouth...
...upon this earth can apprehend Immortal thoughts when words are grains of sand...
...naked man, broiled yellow, staggered out, murmured, "I'm all right," fell dead. One rescuer pulled out two dead dogs. Another brought two children, both with broken bones, horrible burns. Seated in a bonfire of debris, one man dazedly slapped at his burning clothes. Gobs doused him with sand, yanked him away. A Hindenburg steward named Kubis courageously ran back into his ship to save the metal money box. He bore it proudly to his officers. But all the bills within had charred to ashes. Also lost was a valuable 340-lb. cargo of which the chief known items...
...formally claim jurisdiction over Kingman Reef. Some 1,100 miles from Honolulu, this coral atoll is part of the Territory of Hawaii, is in the exact geographical centre of the Pacific. Its five-mile horseshoe is awash at high-tide except for one patch of sand. But the barrier breaks the combers, provides a quiet lagoon which is a mid-ocean lake, perfect for a plane base. There Pan American's six-man shore-crew has set up a cottage under the three palms. In the lagoon lies the 6,000-ton S. S. Northwind, with a radio direction...