Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...couples wedded by sea captains to the march of chill spume were displeased last week. An opinion handed down by Judge Chauncey G. Parker (Shipping Board General Counsel) stated simply and effectively that no Federal statute empowers captains to conduct marriage ceremonies. Captains were then ordered to quit marrying...
Cartoonist "Bud" Fisher is a sea-wed, as is Nora Bayes, comedienne. The question of the legality of their marriages, and that of all other sea-weddings depends upon whether or not the State in which the vessel is documented lists ship masters among persons authorized to wave the linking baton...
...Florida, a 35-ft. idol with Mongolian features, carved from "wood eternal" (sea mangrove), was found near a burial mound whose occupants lived, guessed scientists, 2,000 years...
...York-to-London cable costing about $4,000,000, that will be eight times as fast and efficient as any now joining these two cities. At Bay Roberts, 150 Newfoundlanders bundled on their oilskins and went down the beach through a driving rain to drag in the monstrous sea-serpent of twisted copper, brass, guttapercha and "permalloy" brought in to them by the cable-layer Colonia. The Colonia then plowed off eastward to splice a deep-sea section with the other shore end at Penzance. In August she will lay a final section from Bay Roberts to Manhattan...
Cable-laying and tending is a deep sea art. The Colonia is continuously on service, in season and out, finding breaks and mending them. So carefully is each mile of cable charted that little time is lost grappling up the line in two or three miles of ocean. But most breaks occur in shallows. The cable will be scarred or ground in two by icebergs; snagged by fishing trawls; ravaged by boring worms. Once a whale's corpse was found looped in the line. Once a shark's tooth was embedded at a break...