Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Doctor in the Royal Library, and very considerately shouted in his ear during a brief audience, knowing him to be deaf. The Privy Council cited the dictionary of Dr. Johnson as defining what George III meant by "coast" as follows: "The edge or margin of land next to the sea [and also], a considerable tract of land bounded by and looking towards the sea...
...young continents earthquakes come relatively more often than hic-coughs to children. Therefore, last week, Japanese seismologists prowled about the recent earthquake area (TIME, March 14) with the optimistic smiles of family doctors. They know that the Japanese Islands are still rising from the sea, like so many teeth pushing up through infant gums...
During the week famed Japanese seismologist Dr. Shinichi Kunitomi fairly beamed upon correspondents as he said: "We were very fortunate this time. The amplitude of the quake was such as to indicate a national catastrophe, but fortunately the centre of the earth movement was ten miles out at sea, off the Tango peninsula. That alone accounts for the present minimum of disaster...
There are no rent days on the sea...
...plane was sighted, wrecked on the North African sea dunes, 60 miles from Cape Juby. Then a native trotted in to civilization with a letter from Major Larre-Borges. Moorish tribesmen had taken him and his comrades and their possessions into camp, he said. There must be a ransom. Uruguay cabled its diplomats to spare no cost. Spain mustered a military rescue party. Semi-financial negotiations moved. Commercial planes flew out to pick up the castaways...