Word: shallow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their whereabouts. Senor Alvo informed one caller: "Yes. Senor Lindbergh is here. He is taking a bath." Two days later, when fog forced them down again on the Minho River, they spent the night in their plane. Spanish sailors and Portuguese fishermen had to dredge the river's shallow, rocky bed before they could take off. Arriving in Lisbon, Colonel Lindbergh discussed the possibility of a transatlantic terminus there with a representative of Pan American Airways, for which he has been making his European tour, and two representatives of British Imperial Airways. He denied rumors that he would attempt...
...agricultural region has become not only inhospitable but actually dangerous to ducks. Rains early in the breeding season encourage them to settle, raise their families on shallow ponds, sloughs and potholes. Then hot, windy weather comes to suck up the water, leaves ducklings fatally high & dry. Falling water levels in larger ponds and lakes foster the decay of organic matter, the growth of microbes which give both young & old ducks botulism, "western duck disease," a form of food poisoning. At Saskatchewan's Johnstone Lake an estimated 150,000 ducks died of this disease during August and September...
Where the shallow, sandy River Platte debouches into the muddy Missouri is Plattsmouth, a neat little Nebraska town of 3,800 population, 21 mi. south of Omaha. Business used to be good in Plattsmouth. Cass County farmers were near enough to the city to diversify and the Burlington Railroad shops always took care of 400 or 500 men. Then for economy the Burlington began to consolidate the shops with its bigger ones in Lincoln. Some of the men followed the shops. Families doubled up and merchants cut down. Depression settled over Plattsmouth like a wintry fog. Six months ago when...
...soup fog the towering grey flank of the world's biggest fighting ship, the $30,000,000 British battle cruiser Hood. What followed jolted the Highlanders out of their wits. The Hood's davits suddenly swung launches filled with marines over the side. The launches sped into shallow water. Holding their rifles high, the marines jumped into the surf, ran up the beach toward a party of British tars camped in the sandhills. The two parties met in a brawling mass, clubbing and wrestling. The campers, outnumbered, were overpowered, hauled out through the surf and tumbled into...
...faithful diarist, no matter how frost-bitten or near-delirious with tropical fever, he seldom missed recording his daily tale. Fond of good living when he could get it, he learned to thrive on savage fare. Few things turned his stomach. Once in Africa, stooping to drink from a shallow well, he saw in the water beneath his own reflection "the ragged black face of a man, newly murdered." But he was thirsty and drank "gratefully." Just returned to England at the outbreak of the Boer War, Talbot went back again as war correspondent. A slow-healing love affair drove...