Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York. It occurred to few that they had chosen one of the most hazardous months of the year to cross one of the world's most treacherous patches of sea. The Caribbean hurricane season was on, and Gulf fishermen had ominously reported that tarpon had been migrating to shore waters "in droves and herds, flocks and schools, by thousands -like they always do in a heavy hurricane season...
...TIME, July 22, under Religion, you have quoted Chaplain Edward Aloysius Duff as follows: "By actual count and statistics, a larger proportion of Navy men and officers attend church on ship and on shore than do men in civilian life." Chaplain Duff fails to mention that neither the 1,700 midshipmen at the Naval Academy nor the recruits at the various training stations have any choice in the matter of churchgoing. They go whether they want to or not. This accounts for a large proportion of the percentage of piety of the Navy. I have never observed any large church...
...still preserved in Siena. Missing are several of the 24 gilded wooden panels that once covered the back. It was one of these, entitled Calling of St. Peter and St. Andrew, that Mr. Kress bought last week, a 17-inch square, showing the figure of Christ on a rocky shore calling Peter and Andrew from their fish nets. All summer it has been on view in the great international show of Italian art in Paris (TIME...
...sink boxes or sneak boats for open water gunning; no blind of any kind more than 100 ft. from shore...
...room in The Bronx by working as a janitor. A child was born, died of malnutrition. Then George lost his janitor's job. Because he was an alien illegally in the U. S., he could not apply for relief. The couple moved to the New Jersey shore of the Hudson River, where they went on starving. They rigged up a tent, pitched it each night in Palisades Interstate Park, struck it at dawn to avoid arrest for vagrancy. George picked up odd jobs. When the tent began to fall apart and bad weather set in last week, the Umbachs...