Word: sea
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...curious to know on what authority TIME has discovered an "insect-line" at 2,500 feet above sea level. I have been plagued with the ordinary house fly in South America at altitudes above 12,000 feet, when there were horses to furnish the manure in which the flies could breed. I am now located 1,700 feet above TIME s "insect-line" and only wish it were as effective in Arizona as in one spot in South Dakota. I say "one spot," advisedly, because when I was in the Black Hills at Lead, I can assure you the existence...
Sirs: TIME, June 20, p. 6, col. 3 says "no flies . . . can bother the President. At 3,500 feet . . . flies . . . cease . . . mosquito weakens." Scenic enthusiasts rush for the front platform of cograil-road car up Mt. Washington (6,293 ft. above sea level is the-summit). Fortunate ones spend time brushing away cinders, black flies, mosquitoes. The writer killed a very bloody mosquito 5,500 feet above sea level. Black flies penetrate far above timber line. Scientists may disagree, but I had "bites" to prove my case. Keep the red cover. It will aid newsstand sales. Red-white-blue cover...
Their earth inductor compass had fits of running wild, their radio had become disabled, they were fast running out of gasoline-when suddenly at 3 a. m. they saw the sea-coast and the flicker of a lighthouse beacon beneath them. That was the moment when Commander Byrd scribbled: "We are going to land." It was safer to drop into the sea than to crash into unyielding, un known, fog-blanketed land, he decided...
...vainly waited a year for a second meeting, she marries Archie Roxby, bears him a son, becomes his widow. At home again, Mary Hansyke goes into her uncle's shipyards, watches the tall clippers she has built swing through the harbor of Danesacre to the wide sea; her worship of lovely ships is a more compelling idolatry than that which she offers her second husband, Hugh Hervey. She loves him deeply, but, since love and ship-building touch in her the same depths, ship-building more perfectly satisfies her sense of command. Just after her marriage...
...eager and concentrated mind could not for long be satisfied. They plan to go away together, but quietly, alone, he goes first. "Forever young, forever brave, forever proud, Mary Hansyke walked across the old shipyard, while the John Garton moved down the harbor, her keel parting a shoreless sea, her prow lifted to the air of eternity. A lovely ship...