Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with recesses for Midyear examinations and the spring vacation. The students receiving the highest average in Ground School will be selected for flight training this summer, and upon passing the Flight Physical Examinations, will be ordered to Squantum for 45 days active duty. Every student is enrolled as a seaman, second class, and while being taught to fly and receiving his 30 hours of "solo" time, is paid, on an average, $85 a month...
...landing party that soon stepped ashore was a 15-year-old Cabin Boy Kenneth Rawson, tanned, broadened and more rugged than when his father last saw him, and 30 lb. heavier. He had taken his tricks at the wheel with the best of them, was pronounced "able seaman" by his commander...
...sunk off Block Island in collision with the coastwise steamer City of Rome, the would-be rescuers of any sailors alive in the sunken submarine lost hope. Two divers sent down each succeeded in entering the battery room hatch and each brought up the body of a seaman...
...week more than 70 British ships were tied up by the seamen's strike (TIME, Aug. 31, Sept. 14), and delivery of more than 750,000 tons of goods was being delayed. The trans-Atlantic steamers barely managed to keep sailing by snapping up every union or non-union seaman whom they could tempt into service...
...seven years he has sat serenely on the international powder box. A snapping-jawed, tight-lipped man, he has scared away the rascals. A jovial good fellow with pockets full of laughs, he has out-joked the wily villain. A great seaman, he has understood the fighting...