Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still pink with pride over his giant Pan American Clipper (S-42), which lately flew the Pacific to Honolulu, Inventor Igor Ivan Sikorsky last week stood on the shore of Long Island Sound at Bridgeport, Conn, and beamed at his newest creation, a baby sister of the Clipper, known as S-43. Supposedly the world's fastest (200 m.p.h.) amphibian, the new Sikorsky weighs 19.000 Ib. loaded, seats...
...There he lives alone, a tall, handsome, white-haired scholar with two sons away at school. When he seeks relaxation from writing such works as An Introduction to the Study of Medieval Versions of the Story of Troy or such moral treatises as The Life Everlasting and The Farther Shore, Professor Griffin can always drop in on friends of the Harvard faculty, or listen to the Glee Club sing in the Yard, or walk along the river...
With vigorous Chief Jay N. ("Ding") Darling of the U. S. Biological Survey alarmed at the dwindling U. S. supply of wild duck, his agents have lately redoubled their efforts to smash the 'legging ring. They have got no help from natives. Eastern Shore merchants are notoriously incurious about the source of their customers' cash. But when Federal men arrested Tom Reed and one Bill Powell they were sure they had the Al Capones of ducklegging. Last week Tom Reed, a clean-cut, well-dressed young man, went on trial in Federal Court at Norfolk, Va. Trapper Reed...
...yacht waiting to ferry him to Mexico. At dawn Tony knew that he was finished, began shooting as soon as the light came. Two companies of soldiers, sailors and marines took up safe positions and blazed interminably back. Toward nine Tony decided to make a break for shore and yacht. Covered by the machine gun fire of Senora O'Halloran, he took one companion, an oldtime Venezuelan adventurer, and ran firing toward Batista's men. The two fell battered with bullets almost at once. As he died, Tony's face stiffened into a strange choirboy grimace...
...military jitters last week passed into the dizzy realm of pure nonsense when Tokyo police pounced on a publisher of wood block prints and seized 200 prints of a famed view of Xaruto Strait, done nearly 100 years ago by famed Hiroshige (1797-1858). The print shows a rocky shore line, drawn with the master's delicate and pointed simplicity. Scores of copies of it have long hung on U. S. walls. Xaruto Strait, however, is now a fortified zone. Last week the Tokyo police, addled by suspicion, forbade further reproduction and sale of Hiroshige's lovely picture...