Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eskimos, residents on a remote island in Bering Strait, between Siberia and Alaska, learned last week with intense surprise from the first vessel that has visited them in 15 years that Russia, Germany, Austria, Turkey are no longer empires. When the ship's captain attempted to put to sea before all these changes had been satisfactorily explained, the Slavic peasants forcibly restrained him another day, some contending to the last that his answers to their questions proved him a liar or one gone...
Zane Grey, author: "My son is only 16 but he is as fine a fisherman as I. Last week as we cruised the South Sea Islands in my yacht Fisherman, he hooked a 640-pound thresher shark.* After a 17-hour battle the fish was landed; it is said to be the largest of its kind ever caught...
Francis Brett Young, the British novelist, will talk on "The Form of a Novel" in the Living Room of the Union on Thursday at 7.30 o'clock. He is the author of "Sea Horses", "The Young Physician", and "The Dark Tower...
...gallant Major explained that a faulty oil pipe had caused his descent, in a rough sea, near the mouth of the Fatma River. Waves quickly smashed the plane. It was a hard mile swim to shore. Soon Moorish tribesmen swarmed over the wrecked plane, dug into the batteries for gold and silver, got nothing but a bad electric shock. From the aviators they took money and watches, cut the soles of their shoes for concealed gold. Later they marched the Major and his companions barefooted over the hot sands for many hours, hid them, in sacks on camels' backs while...
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell...