Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Submarines, seaplanes, and other naval craft put to sea. They found the spot of the wreck where bubbles of air boiled upward to the surface of the water. Divers went down and found the ship. They tapped her sides but no answering tap came from within. Yet hope was not given up. There was air enough in the S-51 to last for three days if any men had shut themselves up in one of the seven watertight compartments and were still alive...
...giant cranes were towed to the spot but a heavy sea came up and they were obliged to retire some distance until it should abate. Hope waned: 34 officers and men were in the hulk below. Hope was very dim. Thirty-four corpses? It was only unwillingness to abandon hope that made the would-be rescuers persist...
...planes, painted a charging black bull buffalo within, and zoomed off with more bombs. Critics admired the brushwork of Captain Lansing and Lieutenant Cousins, both well known in American-Parisian junior art circles. Captain James ("Red") Mustane's technique was declared so faulty as to have produced a sea lion instead of a bison...
DAVID GOES VOYAGING-David Binney Putnam-Putnam ($1.50). Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were "made-up" boys. David Putnam is a real one, aged 12, and besides he went thousands of miles on the ocean (with Deep-Sea-Explorer William Beebe, to Panama and the Galapagos Island) and had a lot of modern tackle and interested grown-ups to fish with and collect birds' eggs, turtles, lizards, bugs, beetles and even scorpions. He saw sharks and devilfish, albatrosses and penguins, sea lions and octopuses. He helped dig buried treasure and played pirate on desert islands at the Equator...
...North Sea...