Word: sands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...somehow or other failed either to hit their objective or even to explode when they crashed on the ground. When the zero hour was over, the loyalist troops rushed out to investigate and carefully opened all the "dud" explosives that had fallen. Inside each projectile were large quantities of sand, and in each was a polite note saying, "These bombs won't explode. Greetings to our dear comrades from their German friends...
...churn my dear Grandmother had Was made of cedar wood, And many a good old fashioned rub Of soap and sand had stood. The hoops that bound it were of brass, And shone like burnished gold. Five gallons too of cream or milk, That good old churn would hold. Ker Chunk, Ker Chunk...
...psychologist (Doris Daiton), meets young Skipper Hayden Chase (Henry Fonda), who distrusts learning and takes out fishing parties on the cutter which he bought after leaving Dartmouth. Despite the disparity of their interests, they fall in love, spending a night together when he jams his boat on a convenient sand bar. Love triumphs temporarily when Hayden takes a job in the city and marriage follows. Then their incompatibility leads them through quarrels to the brink of divorce, and then love triumphs again...
...mind was a vast plan for a combined land and seaplane terminal far outstripping anything existing in the U. S. Last week, first with a spade and then at the controls of a steam shovel, he gouged out the first scoopful of sand in his $13,000,000 project. The hiss of steam as he inexpertly spilled half the giant spoon's earth near the waiting truck was not less searingly exultant than the blast that came from the swart, little Mayor of New York: "This will be to Newark as Kirsten Flagstad is to Gypsy Rose...
...furious gale that threw the little bark high ashore on "an uninhabited and dangerous reef known as Wake Island." Before the storm pounded her to pieces, passengers and crew, thankful to be alive, recovered bit by bit stores and cargo-burying the latter deep in the coral sand. But their thankfulness turned to horror as the most intensive search produced no fresh water. Deciding to leave this dread, lonesome spot, they labored for three weeks to repair & supply longboat and gig salvaged from the wreck. Twenty-two set out in the 22-ft. boat; eight went with Captain Tobias...