Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...symbol of France is a spunky, militant, land-lubbing Cock; but for one day last week Frenchmen raised the three-spiked Trident of sea power. For once the name of "Admiral of the Fleet"*Henri Salaun loomed on a momentary par with that of Marshal Ferdinand Foch. The occasion was twofold: first a review of the Grand Fleet, off Havre, and second the inauguration, at Havre, of the new docks and deep water basin-a prodigious puddle capable of accommodating simultaneously the two largest ships in the world, the Majestic and Leviathan...
Jovial Neptune Doumergue promised, last week, in a mellifluent oration that France will never loose her sea dogs in a war of conquest, will employ them solely as sea watch dogs...
...deep sea basin was formally inaugurated by President Doumergue on the quay, and ebulliently toasted at a champagne banquet aboard the French liner Paris. There Neptune, confronted by a noble fare, beamingly exchanged his metaphysical Trident for a fork, and proved once more that his control over unruly liquids is an honor to France...
...Atlantic Ocean is a mighty ridge, its lazy length (about 50 degrees N. lat. to 40 degrees S. lat.) following the S-shaped outlines of the continents on either side. A sheer 9,000 feet of height, it towers in the way of deep sea fishes scurrying from Pernambuco to Benguel. Its knobby head rises curiously above the waters in the north (Azores plateau); St. Paul, Ascension Island, and Tristan da Cunha mark its southern peaks...
Altimeter: An instrument for measuring elevation of aircraft above a given plane (usually sea level...