Word: shores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ships, before docking in U. S. harbors, must wait in quarantine until health conditions aboard have been approved by port health inspectors. Only newspapermen and certain public officials from shore may go aboard during the wait. *Mrs. Woods is niece of J. P. Morgan...
...feet of Mercedes Gleitz touched chalk rocks on the South shore of England. Exclamatory, she thanked God she was conscious and then fell into stupor for two hours. Fifteen hours and 15 minutes earlier her feet had lost touch with French rocks at Cape Gris Nez. Succeeding on her eighth attempt, a typist, 26 of London, Miss Gleitz is the twelfth person and the third woman-to swim the English Channel. It has not been swum so late in the year by man or woman...
...yacht that used to belong to Germany's Kaiser stole out of Cherbourg harbor early one morning last week. Sliding up under the flank of an enormous U. S. Liner, she lay there waiting. When she put back towards the shore, several hundred retired members of the "A. E. F. observed that the onetime Kaiser's Yacht, now Cherbourg tender of the United States Liner, has been re-christened Welcome...
Skirting the southern end of the island, typhoon and tidal wave broke on the western shore, carrying great boats high into the air and dashing them onto inland rice fields in the vicinity of Nagasaki. The towns of Nakamura and Kojima were wrecked. Jetties, heavy laden barges, motor boats were crushed by the terrific weight of water or blown away by the screeching wind...
...words and waved their caps; the whole country was talking about a terrible thing that had happened. What they knew about the story was this: A big U. S. battleship, the Maine, had rested in the harbor of Havana and there, one soft evening, when the captain was on shore, a greasy Spaniard had externally applied explosives, which had blown a hole through her bottom and had driven her keel upward through her deck. Most of the sailors, 258 of them, and two of the officers had been killed. In Washington, men in frock coats sat around long tables...