Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...southern hemisphere's spring sun was warming Antarctica to almost zero temperature last week. Bands of spectral light bunted the grey ice plateaux with sham festivity. The fringe of sea ice along the continent's frigid hem was softening. Soon four parties of explorers could be poking about the continent...
...Animals of the Sea", Professor Parker, Geology Lecture Room...
...MacDonald. On Monday, the Prime Minister addressed the Senate. Aside from his keynotes (see above), his gist was this: "Gratifying progress has been made and the conversations are continuing." His mood was this: "Ah, Senators! As long as you conduct your negotiations by correspondence over thousands of miles of sea, you will never understand each other at all. In these democratic days when heart speaks to heart as deep speaks to deep and silence talks to silence, personality, personal contact, exchange of views by the lip, sitting at two sides of a fireplace-as it was my great privilege...
...front of the fire in the living room of the President's cabin and talked "for hours." Sunday breakfast was at 8 o'clock. A Marine corps airplane dropped the Sunday newspapers. President and Prime Minister talked on the porch until 11, then the thalassocrats (chiefs of sea powers ) walked upstream beside the rushing Rapidan for three-quarters of a mile. Seeing a log, they sat upon and made it a historic log, still talking, talking.* Mrs. Hoover and Ishbel took a two-hour horseback ride. After 2 o'clock dinner, the President led everyone...
...British pedants applied a new name to the Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald- "thalassocrats," from Greek words meaning "sea" and ''power...