Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Etienne beach, near Hardelot, a short distance south of Boulogne, the sea deposited on the sands the bodies of 13 little boys. That was in the afternoon. Earlier in the day, more than a score of little boys had been sucked out to sea by a strong undercurrent in full view of 17 of their playmates and 4 priests. Priests and others plunged into the waves, rescued 12 boys; only 8 recovered consciousness. Then the sea began to return its little victims...
...three searches, they had not found the "plains and meadows" of sargassum weed commonly reported as forming the Sargasso Sea (TIME, July 20) east of the West Indies. Small, shallow patches of the weed were encountered, and these teemed with marine life. "The Humboldt "Current is gone . . . is extinct.''* Nowhere had they encountered the sweep of icy water that flows up along the west coast of South America from the Antarctic. Volcanic disturbances, earthquakes, were blamed for some vast change in Pacific bathygraphy...
...October, Ellsworth will meet his chief at a U. S. dock, discuss a polar flight by small dirigible or super sea plane...
First Lord of the Admiralty William Clive Bridgeman and the First Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty, threatened to resign unless more warships were built. They based their stand upon the indisputable fact that the existing fleet would in a few years be obsolete unless replacements were made more rapidly...
Coal. Shortly both ships headed north again for the boat-base at Etah, the expedition's last sea-lap. The Bowdoin put in at Umanak en route, where 80 much-appreciated tons of coal were shipped (thanks to the Danish Government's courtesy in waiving the danger of a fuel shortage in Greenland). Aboard the Peary went Governor Rosendahl of 'North Greenland...