Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...signal for the maneuvers was straightforward," cried Prisoner Rear Admiral Bailey. "The Renown made a bad shot at it. I have been her commander and 1 know she is a handy ship...
...Japanese shipping agent in Manhattan buys a cargo of rusty old rails, iron pipe, sawed-off steel girders, stoves, smashed automobiles. He loads it into a creaky freighter already headed for the junk heap. Manned by Japanese, the ship takes on enough coal for one voyage, limps south through the Panama Canal, manages to reach Nagasaki 11,000 mi. away. There the cargo is dumped into smelters. The ship proceeds to Osaka where, in the world's largest ship-breaking yard, acetylene torches reduce its hull to hunks of scrap. The crew works back to New York for another...
...When the ship dives, the oil supply to the engines is cut off and they are fed from the tanks with oxygen and hydrogen. The explosive recombination of oxygen and hydrogen into water releases energy. Because of the engine temperature this exhaust water is in the form of superheated steam. All the steam is condensed inside the submarine. Hence no gases leave the ship to betray it by telltale bubbles on the surface...
Although the islanders read English, Dr. Shapiro found the spoken tongue a mixture of degenerate English, Tahitian, and Pitcairn-coined words. He heard children say, "see ahse scauws zsegoin out da big ship" ("see the boats going out to the big ship"); and, "pfwat youall comee do diffy daffy?" ("why are you coming to do this and that?"). A few words, such as "tai-tai" (tasteless), are retained from the Tahitian although long since obsolete on Tahiti itself...
...above them, and the buried men were strewn through the earth on which they trod, and a bracelet of great tides was flashing round them, and the enfabled rock on which they swarmed swung eastward in the marches of the sun into eternity, and was masted like a ship with its terrific towers, and was flung with a lion's port between its tides into the very maw of the infinite, all-taking ocean...