Word: sea-coast
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...majors have had fewer problems. The only night games affected by the sea-coast dimout are those held at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field and Manhattan's Polo Grounds, where the Dodgers and Giants now play at twilight instead. Some big-league stars have walked off to war; many more will follow. But up from the minors have come a bumper crop of rookies who have helped fans forget the Greenbergs, Fellers, Padgetts, Travises...
...common feature of each course is the training period in the summer between the Junior and Senior years. In the Navy it consists of a cruise along the Atlantic sea-coast for from three to six weeks of camp at Fort Ethan Allan near Burlington, Vt. The Navy, in addition, offers optional cruises during every summer vacation...
...fashion that commanded respect, for they had known doubts and struggles, wars and vigils, and they made their profession of faith as men who had won it, not without years in the wilderness and days of blindness. They had cultivated their gardens, they knew the country, the sea-coast and the homestead, the lakes and the mountains, where they had wandered as boys and lived as weather-wise men, familiar with plants and animals, the ways of nature, the trades and occupations of the people. . . . Their books were full of all these human interests, this deep sense of the local...
...policy, problematical though it remains, and clarify at the same time the attitude of America toward her. She is now in the process of regaining the second piece of territory taken from her in the Versailles treaty, and with the more gradual domination of the little Baltic sea-coast states, it is clear she intends to regain as much of her lost territory as possible. As she becomes a great Baltic power again, she appears more like the Imperialistic Russia of old than a new Communist Union, with purely selfish designs intended neither to help nor to hinder Adolf Hitler...
Seated cross-legged in a basket, the dead Indian was wrapped in hundreds of yards of cotton and wool cloth and decked in all the finery of the historic civilization from the dry eastern sea-coast of South America...