Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro maid, three watchful Secret Service men, and Lawyer Samuel Platt who served Elliott Roosevelt a year ago, drove away in motor cars at 60 m.p.h. to escape trailing newshawks. In half an hour she arrived at Lake Tahoe and entered the seven-room cottage, on the Nevada shore, which she had rented for her six-week residence in Nevada. Said Attorney Platt: "I will not say whether she will charge desertion or cruelty...
...many classes journeyed out of town for dinners and informal gatherings. The Class of 1924, after registering in the Hotel Continental, left for Dedham, where a program of sports was scheduled. The Class of 1899 met at the Business School and then on by automobile to the South Shore Country Club at Hingham...
...offense. The enemy must be struck long before he can reach the long U. S. coastline. Admiral Sampson fought at Santiago. Admiral Dewey fought 7,000 mi. away from home at Manila Bay. The Navy hopes it will never have to battle with its back to the shore, but Admiral Reeves is taking no chances. Just as von Hindenburg prepared for his great victories against the Russians in 1914-15 by painstakingly studying the topography of the Masurian swamps, so Admiral Reeves has long concentrated on the "triangular strategic area" of Hawaii-Puget Sound-Panama...
...street was that no alcoholic beverages could be sold for two days. Suspicious correspondents, not at all satisfied with the obvious instigators of Latvia's dictatorship, spotted the shadow of Adolf Hitler behind President Kviesis and his officers. Beyond the Polish Corridor and East Prussia, the Eastern shore of the Baltic is edged with little countries born of the War. Going north, they are Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and vast lake-riddled Finland. All of them were Russian provinces before 1917 and in all of them still goes on a constant struggle of German v. Russian influence. Latvia is mostly...
...liner drew close it steered slightly to port of the lightship and speed was reduced to 16 knots. The oscillograph detector was not used to find the distance, but the liner's position was computed by cross-bearings from shore radio stations. Few minutes before the crash, while the beacon indicated the lightship to be three degrees off the starboard bow, the signals were suddenly lost. The oscillograph detector went dead also. Then the lightship's fog whistle was heard. Every officer on the Olympic's bow agreed the sound was off the starboard bow. To play...