Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago. Until then, his precocious wit was disparaged unanimously by neighbors, schoolmates, and employers. The first phase of a business career was terminated by the war, when he entered the Navy and during the war gave his all for his country, in Chicago. Having never been on the sea, he was at once appointed instructor in navigation. "I still get letters," he confessed, "from mothers whose sons have never come back...
...Mediterranean shoal, Sturly pricked his nose against a crawling globe with reddish spines. The globe chuckled, softly. It was old Echinus, the Sea-Urchin, the malefemale, ancestor of the oceans, in whom are all the joys of love and all human knowledge. Sturly was respectful of his counsel...
...Sturly did not comprehend. Now grown a mail-clad Titan of 500 pounds, he sounded back into the black-glimmering, life-bearing abysses where it seemed all truth must be hidden. He searched the shimmering shoals and sea-gardens of all the oceans, as it is a Sturgeon's destiny to do. He knew all the fish, which ate which, and observed how the vast submarine cosmoplasm is also a vast necropolis...
...Author. Pierre Custot, modest Frenchman, offers Sturly, not to scientists, not to novel-readers, but "to those who like to meditate beside the sea." He has spent years voyaging in strange waters, years pondering fish in books, tanks and hotel bedrooms as well as in their less accessible homes. For reproducing an English Sturly in the finest nuances of submarine color and motion, Author Custot owes thanks to Translator Richard Aldington...
This picture showed the vertical city in the very moment of its demolition by the earthquake (TIME, Mar. 9, SCIENCE) to which the headline so meagrely referred. There was the proud tower of the Woolworth Building cracking like a piece of barley sugar; the Hudson River, a sea of incredible ferocity, was hurling its titanic waters upon a scene wherein buildings of granite, steel, cement, riven at their foundations, toppled insanely upon one another or hurtled separately through the air to melt into the yawning earth amid great ruin, confusion and desolation. The man who beheld this by the kitchen...