Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scurrilous story had it that the love affair began last summer. The strong-willed "mother-in-law of the Balkans," Queen Marie, discovered it and Ileana's "cherub," one Paius, was sent posthaste back to his ship in the Black Sea...
After five hours of scouring the sea for help, they sighted the Dutch tanker, S. S. Barendrecht, bound from the Azores to Rotterdam. Circling low they dropped a message on the ship's deck. "How FAR ARE WE FROM LAND AND WHICH WAY?"?Ruth Elder...
...miles from the Portugese coast the American Girl came down close to the tanker Barendrecht. Even if the oil system had functioned, the gasoline supply was too low to negotiate the distance. The pilots crawled on to the wings of the plane, bobbing precariously on a choppy, fresh-blown sea. Soon both were hauled to the deck of the tanker...
...work out a means of detecting the approach of submarines. The naval officers who are studying at Harvard this year will work with the hydrophone, an instrument used for depth finding, signalling under water, the detection of objects on the ocean floor, and the transmission of speech through the sea. The radio will be the special field of some of lie men, as the primary, and often the only means of communication at sea...
...naval officers stationed at the Engineering School told a CRIMSON reporter. "Electric beacons are being used now where formerly light houses and bells were the only guides at dangerous points. Fog and rough weather make the older methods unreliable or utterly useless, while the electric vibrations transmitted through the sea, and registered by the hydrophone, are not so seriously affected by conditions of the weather. The depth of water under a ship at any time can be instantly determined by electric means, while undersea signalling and the transmission of the voice through water are also being developed...