Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chairs in Harvard dormitories fell over. Boston citizens were alarmed. Cape Cod sea captains left their pinochle, when the severest earthquake the east had felt for many years jarred seismographs from Halifax to Manhattan. Most noticeable in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, the brief temblor was not felt in Manhattan, everywhere did little damage...
...suggest this because every V. C. that I have ever talked to always dishes up some explanation of this sort to account for his peculiar conduct, whether by land or sea, by air or under ground. ... I need not say that I would be proud to be of this company...
...returned. The smoke over Santa Maria was grey and ominous. For miles around the verdure was burnt and hideous. Pilot Richardson swung his plane lower. Haciendas, coffee plantations had disappeared. The flanks of Santa Maria were streaked with wrinkled beds of steaming lava, moving in ponderous streams toward the sea. In the midst of the lava stream a little hill made an island of refuge. On it huddled a group of the same peons who had waved to him three days earlier, men, women, children. They were completely marooned. Inch by inch the lava stream crept higher. There...
...that employes were invited to suggest names for a new Boston-New York flier the road was planning. Newlywed Coolidge's suggestions were last week published by the road's publicity staff as follows: Silver Shaft, Twilighter, Dusky Flier, Evening Star, Skipper, Shadowtown Special, Yankee Clipper, Seagull, Pioneer, Ace, Sea Flier, Sea Slipper, Blackhawk, Kingfleet...
...Victoria Island. To its frozen remoteness eight bearded, twitching men tottered. Their leader, Col. C. D. H. McAlpine, only after being warmed and fed, explained that they were the Canadian exploring party who were lost with their two seaplanes two months ago in a snowstorm over Queen Maud Sea. Out of fuel, they alighted on the water and dragged their planes to shore. They did not know that they were only 40 miles from the Fort St. James. Even had they known, they could not have crossed the water. After long delay the winter freeze arrived. Then came Eskimos...