Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several days minesweepers searched vainly for the sunken vessel, plowed futilely back and forth through choppy rising seas. The Admiralty sent out divers and ships equipped with a recently and secretly developed instrument for magnetically detecting sunken masses of iron. The sea bottom was explored by every possible means. Then a startling announcement was made. The trouble it seemed lay not in locating sunken ships but in distinguishing the M-l from the many vessels sunk in that vicinity by the Germans! The sea bottom was described as "littered with ships," and despatches announced that the Admiralty had practically abandoned...
From Bolivia and Argentina, after 28 months' work, Professor Elmer S. Riggs of the Field Museum (Chicago), returned, bringing 800 fossils of 100 species of animals aged 8 to 15 million years. Most were taken from beds on the sea floor at the foot of towering cliffs, on the Santa Cruz coast. There the average tide-rise is 56 feet, and the work had to be done in dashes at the ebb. There was no evidence that the creatures found had had any communication by a land bridge with North America or any other continent. They formed a unique...
Just as it is a bloomer to talk about the price of sea foods to a man whose wife has died of oyster ptomaine-a faux pas to discuss prohibition in a house recently disgraced by the tippling of its breadwinner-so it is a serious breach of taste to "speak of earthquakes in California. Ever since the geological disaster in San Francisco in 1906, all convulsions of the earth's crust have been referred to euphemistically; people do not say "since the earthquake" but "since the fire." What must be the courage, then, of Dr. Bailey Willis, seismologist...
...board the liner Paris in mid-ocean last week, Ignace Jan Paderewski was giving a concert while the ship bounced on the stormy sea like a pea on a reverberating drumhead. Waves pounded her forefoot with a sodden, heavy impact; the wind found a flute to blow in every cranny; passengers in the saloon struggled to keep their chairs from skidding together. Paderewski played on. Suddenly three great seas in succession struck the tottering vessel; she shivered, climbed a wave, and jerked to starboard with a lurch that spilled the gathering in the salon out of their seats. Ladies...
...program is as follows: Officer of the Day March Sousa Football Songs Harvard Banjo Club Brown Instrumental Clubs Kammenal-Ostrow Polla My Sweetie Turned Me Down Green Gold Coast Orchestra Brown Glee Club Thousand and One Nights Waltz Strauss Harvard Mandolin Club Schneider's Band Secrets Sea Chanties Fair Harvard Harvard Vocal Unit