Word: shores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sport to flail his posteriors, raise welts upon his face, and knock out several of his teeth. When they released Mr. Greenwood, he was able to stagger into the refuge of the international city. ¶ Foreign shipping on the Yangtze River was repeatedly potshot by irresponsible Chinese artillery on shore, last week, causing the U. S. S. Preble and Cincinnati to return this fire several times with four-inch and six-inch guns. When similarly attacked, the British H. M. S. Mantis and Wolsey went into action with machine guns...
...cover a $20,000,000 loan. The receivership of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway has cost him a million. But his saddest loss was the forced sale in 1923 of his Melody Farm, $5,000,000 estate of forests, fountains, lakes, drives and gardens, near the Lake Michigan shore north of Chicago. Truculently honest, weary of commercial strife, he now spends most of his time rusticating in California. Last week however he was, like another Cincinnatus called from his farm, in Chicago alongside his nephews Philip D. Ill and Lester in their tribulations with Armour Grain...
Bounding Jugoslavia on three sides are Austria, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania; and on the fourth side lies the Adriatic, with Italy just across its silvery waves. Italian states-craft has always the object of seizing the Adriatic shore of Jugoslavia along which Italians already own 96% of all producer wealth: factories, steamship lines, etc. Therefore, if Il Duce could establish close rapprochement with all the countries bounding Jugoslavia, he would have laid the noose for hog-tying that realm. This, in a vulgar word, was what Il Duce and Count Bethlen did last week...
Standing on the shore, Commander de Pinedo watched his two globe-trotting comrades dive from the plane and swim to safety. But soon the Santa Maria was a charred mass of wire and twisted metal. The heavy engine plunged hissing from its supports into 60 feet of water. Sick at heart, Commander de Pinedo cabled Premier Mussolini for another plane in which to carry on, for the glory of Fascismo, his four-continent itinerary, of which there remained to be completed a flight to the Pacific coast and up it to Seattle, thence east via Chicago, New York, Boston, Newfoundland...
...Whitney islands had never been viewed by man.? It might contain land. . . . But Captain Wilkins did not return to Barrow as scheduled. After 82 hours his comrades at the base camp caught a radio flash: "Engine trouble." He and Pilot Eielson had been forced down 100 miles from shore, not west, but east of Barrow's longitude. A blizzard raged. The distress signals ceased. The crew on shore waited for weather before flying out in a reserve plane to see how their chief fared among floes and hummocks which split, sometimes, with thunderous reports into leads of open water...