Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaving Veracruz, the Norfolk and the Admiral reached New Orleans last week, found all the banks shut, no chance for his 500 sailors to receive their shore-leave pay or change the few pound notes they possessed. Admiral Drax summoned British Consul General Frank Gordon Rule and demanded $3,000 in cash. Consul General Rule went to A. B. Patterson of the New Orleans Association of Commerce and pointed out the good that this money would do to the various New Orleans institutions that sailors enjoy...
There was a chance that the wind would veer and drive them all back to shore. But when the floe with most of the dogs disappeared, together with three floes with stores, no matter what thereafter might happen, the expedition was ruined. Captain Riiser-Larsen rigged up his portable wireless, called for help...
...addition to the hockey game, speed races against time between the players have been planned, with such racers as Lamb, Shore, and Clapper of the Bruins taking part. The Back Bay Skating Club will put on a demonstration of fancy and fast skating, and some of the best skaters in the vicinity will give exhibitions...
...yesterday afternoon in an attempt to end her life. Grob, who was walking along the Cambridge bank of the river, saw the girl, fully clothed, in the water and immediately dove into the icy-cold stream, swam about 20 feet to reach her, and brought her back to the shore...
When his motorboat was smashed on an Adriatic reef near Pola, the Duke of Spoleto, cousin to King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, swam back from the safety of the shore to rescue his companion, a Lieutenant Cavalli...