Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wireless reports, coming in every few days from mid-Atlantic, keep the world in touch with the progress of the scientific expedition of the New York Zoological Society, under William Beebe, which is adventuring in the Sargasso Sea aboard the wooden steamer Arcturus. Few scientific expeditions, excepting only the Carnarvon progress into the tomb of TutankhAmen, have had so much and such continued publicity during the progress of work...
...Story. After the mysteries of a certain wedding, consummated over a moss-bed in the headwaters of a French river, an imperceptible gobbet of gelatine floated down the river into the sea. The gobbet sank, down, down into pelagic depths, attached itself to a rose-colored seaweed and swooned away...
...weedy patches of this sea are believed to be the breeding place of eels, which spread thence to the shores of neighboring continents...
...Arcturus has had rough voyaging all the way, from New York to Newport News, from Newport News to Bermuda (which was touched on Feb. 19) and since then at sea. Considerable breakage of crockery resulted; the heavy seas prevented deep sea trawling to bring up the little monsters from great depths. These live under such great pressure that they usually burst when brought to the surface because their high inward pressure, developed to meet the great weight of the water of the depths, cannot endure when they are lifted to the low pressure of the surface...
Faith:"They say that Brittany fisher folk have a legend that, off their coast, deep buried in the sea, is the ideal city of Atlantis; and from it, on the quiet nights, when the winds are still, if a man's heart is right, he can hear the pealing of the bells. Such is the soul of man with sacred things deep sunken, which life's stormy noise makes us forget; and here, oftentimes on a Sunday morning, we have been quieted in worship until we heard the pealing of the bells...