Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the patched-up S-4 was floated again and towed from the drydock for internal repairs. Soon she will be in running order once more. She will be remanned. She will go to sea. She will dive down under the sea-and come...
Meanwhile thousands of Milanese, touched by His Majesty's bravery and tenderness, had gathered in a packed and wildly cheering throng before the Royal Palace. When King Vittorio Emanuele finally slipped out upon a balcony and saluted, the ovation rose like the roar of sea surf, wave on wave. Again and again His Majesty saluted, but more than half an hour passed before the cheers died down sufficiently for him to retire within...
...Hamburg a fat man named Otto Kemmerich got into a swimming pool with a California sea lion. After swimming for ten hours the sea lion went to sleep in the water, was revived with a meal of fresh herring, swam 32 hours more, collapsed. Kemmerich swam four hours longer, a new world's endurance record...
...Harold E. Talbott Jr.-he is an Ohio manufacturer and sports man; she was pretty Peggy Thayer of Haverford, Pa. - arrived in Manhattan from Africa with a baby rhinoceros. They had bought it, alive, in Uganda on their hunting trip. It had died at sea. They sent it to be stuffed...
...sagacity as he has lately been given credit for being. The fact that his widely heralded Bunion Derby has been buried on back pages of the daily press ever since the starting gun is no cause for worry. It is a well-known maxim that the public, like the sea elephant, can be fed a good deal but when fed too much gets nauseated. No one knows this better than the wary Mr. Pyle...