Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decades Memorial was thronged. The more fortunate organized themselves in "club tables," where each had his own sea. Others perforce ate at "hotel tables," where the appetite of newcomers--two or three relays of them--was tempered by seeing remains of a predecessor's voracity. That was before the war. Latterly, we are told, the diners have dwindled from well above a thousand to three hundred. It takes five hundred to pay expenses. The loss last year was some...
...lower half of Lake Huron, sweep across Ontario, picking up Toronto at its northern edge, span the approaching tips of Lakes Erie and Ontario, cross straight over Buffalo, darken northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New York, blanket nearly all of Connecticut and much of Rhode Island and go out to sea about 9:15 with Manhattan at its southern border. New Haven at its centre and New Bedford at its north flank; then out far across the Atlantic before taking a sweep north to end off at the Faroe Islands, north of Scotland...
...using hand cameras in rapidly moving planes were not satisfactory. The apparatus has been improved, however, and better results are expected this time from airplanes, which will ascend at Dayton. Likewise the dirigibles Shenandoah and Los Angeles are expected to take the air this year and go out to sea, where the sun will be higher than on land at the time of the eclipse; in addition, they will have the advantage of slower movement than airplanes...
...faculty of Novorossiisk University consisted of 29 professors. In a body, they took passage on a Black Sea steamer for themselves and all their families. Then there was bustling, packing, leave-taking at Novorossiisk, and, one day last week, the whole band embarked...
...woman shrieked, seeing the portholes burst. The vessel groaned, feeling downward for her grave on the cold seafloor. The Black Sea flung its folding mountains on and on toward land and the winter gale hissed a dirge for the works...