Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even these harpings did not seem to damage the Couzens popularity in Michigan at first. Instead of grubbing for renomination in the primary campaign, the Senator rented a yacht, disdainfully went off fishing on the Great Lakes. His cause was still far from lost when he returned to shore last month. Then, against the advice of friends, he boldly announced: "Believing as I do that the most important matter confronting the nation is the re-election of President Roosevelt, I intend to support...
Lifeboat Racing attracts huge crowds, probably because it costs nothing to watch. Competing crews of six passenger and freight steamships last week splashed off at the starter's gun, pulled up New York Harbor off the Bay Ridge shore where 250,000 strollers, motorists and apartment residents were watching. Each boat's weight, ascertained before the start, was 5,500 lb., with crew and ballast...
...Germany's No. 1 airline started catapulting ship-to-shore airplanes from the Bremen and Europa. Since February 1934, Lufthansa has been running a regular weekly airplane mail service across the South Atlantic, using a catapult ship anchored off either shore. By last week Lufthansa was ready to tackle the more formidable North Atlantic on the experimental co-operative basis arranged with the U. S. and Pan American Airways last winter (TIME...
When the Rex brought bishop and priest to shore, Bishop Gallagher cried to a crowd on the dock: "Father Coughlin is an outstanding churchman and his voice . . . is the voice...
...rest of the world is in reverse ratio to its importance in that enameled frieze of polite 20th Century pleasure that constitutes September social life on Long Island. Deserted through muggy August days while the fog horns mooed unhappily along the Sound, the big Georgian houses along the North Shore were last week filled again, lighted for parties through cool evenings as their owners returned from Newport, Saratoga, Maine and Europe...