Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...themselves with deadly seriousness, an Italian naval seaplane (the adjective is not redundant) skimmed the upper surface of the Mediterranean off Spezia. An Italian submarine skimmed the under surface, only the top of its periscope showing. With a splintering crash, periscope met plane. The aviators somersaulted unhurt into the sea. The submarine commander, quickly bringing his craft to the surface, joined his crew in smiling broadly. The accident is thought to be unique. A tourist arriving at Geneva from Italy, last week, is reported to have brought with him a Fascist pamphlet filled catechismwise with questions and answers. An example...
...Nichols, who prepared for college at the high school of his native city, Portland, Me was the so of a New England sea captain, Edwin T. Nichols. He entered Harvard in 1895, and steered clear of most extra-curriculum activities while in college. He did win note as a boxer of merit, and to this day boxing has been the means of the Mayor-elect receiving his daily exercise...
...meal followed, a light shower, and a few handfuls of soot. More voters appeared and the campaign arguments thickened-clouds of eggs, bursting with fabulous stench; here a rich asortment of cod heads raining down; there a herring, another, a shoal of flying herrings long since removed from the sea. Fogs of soot darkened the scene and a blizzard of meal. Scraping fish omelet from their eyes, the partisans closed in ardent wrestling bouts, the object being to keep your opponent from getting to the polling booth-if necessary, to cripple him. Four students were carried to the hospital...
...grown. They held their fire, descended the crags, and went over into the Thian Shan mountains for the ibex, Thian Shan sheep, bear, roe, goitered gazelle and a variety of birds and small mammals. Their ornithologist and curator, George K. Cherrie, set off for civilization via the Caspian Sea with these politico sportsman ad-to the Pamirs put the Roosevelts to finish their work...
Tentative arrangements have been made by the Union to secure Rear Admiral F. C. Billard, Commandant of the Coast Guard, to deliver a talk on the sea-fighting along...