Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McNary-Haugen farm bill (TIME, March 7), formally placed at the President's disposal "all the good things that do distinctly exist in the Hawkeye State." One specific good thing was the Franklin Floete estate "The Highlands." Inducements: 35 acres, fully fenced for privacy; 1,700 feet above sea-level (cool, bracing). Location: On Lake Okoboji, northern Iowa...
...Poydras, La., one Ted Herbert, deep sea diver, dived into the Mississippi, set off more dynamite at the Poydras Cut. The current pulled his diver's helmet over his head, almost drowned him. Diving a second time he discarded the helmet, and, as he had no other diving equipment dived naked like a South Sea Islander. Superstitious, Diver Herbert said that if he let his picture be taken, certain death would follow...
...Grand Council would cooperate in this great scheme of progress by appropriating the cost of completing the railway from the frontier straight in to the Borgo? Any other course would be to fly in the face of Providence, to refuse a generous offer, to antagonize the whole teeming sea of Italy above which San Marino rises like a silent islet...
...Last week the German admiralty announced having touched a spot lower in the world than any spot recorded?a spot 34,416 feet below sea level. With line and sinker, the cruiser Emden had found it, in the so-called "Japanese Ditch," running from Japan down to the Philippine Islands. The greatest ocean depth previously known was 32,644 feet, off the east coasts of Japan...
After a farewell luncheon at the Waldorf, the University Afloat dispersed, its students to see if their home universities in 43 states would honor their sea-credits for study since last September; its faculty and management to prepare for the Ryndam's second cruise, starting next September...