Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diver on the sea bottom, 50 ft. down, described what he saw. As anybody knows who has been there, the sea bottom is no more interesting than an equal stretch of dry land, unless one is especially interested in seaweed or fish. The diver was on the bottom for only six or seven minutes, but he managed to find two sunken ships and several bottles of bootleg rum with the corks removed. The romance of the sea bottom is generally in inverse proportion to the extent of one's familiarity with...
Died. Joseph Conrad, 66, famed chronicler of the romance of the sea; in Kent, England; of heart disease. (See Page...
...scanty attire more than 100 men and women fled through the smoke-filled halls and escaped to the street, while firemen battled with great sheets of flame that swept in from the open sea at a velocity of sixty miles an hour. At the suggestion of the mayor, however, the indorsement was made unanimous...
...earnest desire, his father secured him a berth on a French collier, sailing from Marseilles. From then until 1895 he lived upon the sea. At first, he served on French vessels; later, aboard English ships. He rose through all the grades of seamanship? from man 'before the mast to master. There was no sea that did not know him. Not infrequently, health failed him for a time. One of these occasions was when he made his only visit to the Congo, the land which had first inspired his wanderings. In 1884, he became an English subject and in the same...
...course of the next year, Conrad completed the novel, which was Almayer's Folly; in another year it was published. This first book was seven years from the writing of its first word to its printing. That same year saw Conrad's marriage. Shortly afterwards he gave up the sea, settled down at what he called his "farmhouse" near Hythe, Kent. There he continued writing novels of the sea, of the life he loved. He made plans, at times, to return to his sea life, but there were always hindrances which prevented...