Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fine August morning in 1925, the Danish Admiralty came to a decision: a keg of indigestible dynamite is to be placed in the cast iron belly of the U20 so that the little weasel of the sea may sink in agony and lie far down in the green waters with the other little devils of the deep. No more need man-made leviathans fear death from its speeding projectiles nor its own broken and scaly body...
...GOAT AND COMPASSES? Martin Armstrong?Harper ($2.00) You gaze down at people from the church steeple of Crome one sea-windy day: thin Susan Furly marching from door to door with the parish magazine; buxom Bella Jorden, preening her black silk on the porch of the Goat and Compasses; Rose Jorden talking furtively with some man through a hedge; old Mrs. Dunk, the charwoman, pottering about the graveyard; plump-breasted Sally Dunk, flirting boldly in the lane. Of an evening you hear the local males talking at the inn, Crome's moral centre. By night, the sleeping selves...
...Cooper plan transcends such feeble efforts as far as the locomotive outclassed the wheelbarrow. It calls for great sea walls, with water gates to shut the 100 sq. mi. of Passamaquoddy Bay into an upper pool. Other walls would immure Cobscook, the lower bay, 50 sq. mi. more. Across the inlet between the two pools thus formed, from Eastport* (island) to the Maine mainland, a dam and power house would be built. Operation would be as follows: on a rising tide, the gates to the upper pool would be opened to admit the sea. At flood, the gates would close...
Engineer Cooper, who has for 14 years revolved his idea of riding the Old Man of the Sea and for four years studied the Fundy terrain, is prepared to finance his project without state or federal aid and to devote the rest of his life to its completion. It would cost over 75 millions, he figures. It would take 5,000 workmen five years. The sea walls necessary total over a mile in length and at to upper pool must be 70 ft. high. The power dam is 3,600 ft. To build in the concrete water gates, mountains...
...Southampton. The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea is no friend to tennis players. It sends its fogs to swell catgut strings so that a dry day will snap them; it strangles the buoyant spirits of balls; its rains rot turf, soften sand. All these things it did at Southhampton last week, but the annual invitation tournament went smoothly on. There was only one upset-the defeat of Alfred Chapin by Cedric A. Major of Manhattan. Young George Lott of Chicago easily ended the hopes of upstart Major, and was himself defeated in the finals by Howard Kinsey, last year...