Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trip from the Canyon to Cody, on the return to Black Hills, the President made in an automobile, proceeding along the famed Cody road. The picayune limousine in which he sat crawled up edges of huge and jagged mountains, reached finally the height of 9,000 feet above sea level. Never before, President Coolidge stated, had he climbed so high...
...through the inky blackness striving hopelessly with their concentrated brilliance to make up for a lost moon. A few lazy clouds squatted like Stygian hills on an undefinable horizon, exaggerating the awful nigrescence of a dead night. Not a breath of wind stirred the air, and underneath the green sea lapped wickedly as it broke into little crests of foam. Suddenly the atmosphere vibrated to the staccato dots and dashes of radio-Admiral Kwanji Kato was ordering a night destroyer attack in the Japanese naval maneuvers in the Sea of Japan, 20 miles northeast of Mihoseki. The fleet broke...
...French liner France brought to port a deep sea puzzle for science. Eyewitnesses gave data...
Floods came, winds blew and beat upon the golfers at Port-marnock, Ireland. Players were wrenched from their stances, so fierce was the gale sweeping in from the Irish Sea. The luncheon tent was blown away in large ribbons. Ernest Whitcombe, one of the best, took five shots to reach one green in the teeth of the tumult. Larry Nabholtz, U. S. professional, "picked up" after a morning round of 91. Wild Bill Melhorn, only other U. S. entrant, took an excellent 82 on the final round but his aggregate was 324, out of the running. Only three players broke...
...Knauff's chest, back, abdomen. Mr. Knauff got well. Then Mr. Glauber peeled off the plasters, peeling off also Mr. Knauff's means of livelihood in a circus, to wit, a tattooed portrait of Abraham Lincoln (chest); assorted tattooed landscapes, ships, anchors, Uncle Sams (abdomen); nude females, South Sea Islanders, palms, boats (back...