Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poole showing the arrival of that squadron under Admiral Hugh Rodman, to join the British Grand Fleet during the War. The ceremony took place in the Board Room of the Admiralty in the presence of First Lord of the Admiralty Lord Chelmsford, who accepted the painting, and the First Sea Lord, Lord Beatty...
Barges and shells and eights of varying size take to the trugid waters of the Quinnipiac where the Quinniplac flows down to the sea. The number of men competing in the Regatta is extraordinary; a few years back would have been undreamed of. Increase of interest in rowing has kept pace, or stroke, with the soaring interest spreading throughout the University in all types of sport. It is but one manifestation of the results of the much-talked-of athletics for all policy; a policy which has been developing day by day with results that are only beginning...
...Gold medals of the Academy for 'distinguished scientific achievement were awarded to: Otto Sven Petterson, Sweden, for studies in the chemistry and physics of the sea; Arthur Stanley Eddington, Cambridge, Eng land, for his interpretation of the Einstein theory applied to astronomical problems; C. V. Ludwig Charlier, Sweden, for contributions to astronomy; Bashford Dean, Columbia, for his Biography of Fishes; William Morton Wheeler, Harvard, for his Ants of the American Museum Congo Expedition; Ferdinand Canu, Versailles, France, for his study of the North American Bryozoa (small marine animals). The medals to foreign scientists were received by their respective embassies...
When Homer St. Gaudens was seven, his father visited Robert Louis Stevenson, taking the child with him. The purpose of the visit was to make a bronze medal of the writer, who was then sick-a-bed, making his plans for a visit to the South Sea Islands. There was great difficulty in getting a pose which was not artificial and forced. The sculptor at last suggested that Stevenson write something. He picked up a sheet of paper and began, at once falling into the natural pose immortalized in the famed St. Gaudens Medal. At the end of the pose...
...promise of calmer weather proved deceptive, and with reports of 100-mile-an-hour gales in the North Pacific, the second disappearance of the Seattle was sad, but not unexpected news. The natives reported that " the weather is worse than has been known for years and even the sea gulls are seeking sheltered nooks out of the wind." In spite of systematic and intensive research of the sea and inlets along the islands, no trace of the missing plane was found and hope was all but abandoned. Lieutenants Smith, Wade and Nelson were ordered to go on, however. They flew...