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Word: sea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sea Bright, N. J., one evening last week, a village policeman spied seven nude girls bathing in the Atlantic Ocean. He cried out at them. One of them retorted: "Go look at the law, will ya?" He did. The law specifically prohibited nude bathing from 6 a. m. to 9 p. m. It was after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Too Late | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...Sea Bright's councilmen soon summoned, amended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Too Late | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...owner of Rofa, lived to tell what happened: "The squall caught us with terrific force before we could shorten sail. The mainsail was first to go. It broke off with a great crash about 18 feet from the deck. The 50 feet of mast tumbled into the sea, carrying the heavy gear with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: To Spain | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...America's Cup against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock. He is also treasurer of the Corporation of Harvard College and a prosperous Boston lawyer. Once, when he failed to appear at a session of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, a judge sent a man down to the sea to find him. Mr. Adams sent back the following message: "Can't come, Judge, smelt running like thunder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: To Spain | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

Died. Capt. Sir James T. W. Charles, 62, famed commodore of the Cunard fleet; in Southampton, England, just after he had taken the Aquitania across the Atlantic; of an internal hemorrhage. He had intended to retire after this voyage of the Aquitania and 48 years on the sea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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