Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English) army, but because ship after ship spilled its soggy treasure on the Blasket shore. Sometimes there were corpses. Once a bloated officer from the Lusitania. After the War the day came when sorrow was on the island. The fishing was gone under foot. More and more wakes were held for the young people going off to America, and the old ones wondered who would be left to bury them. Maurice went to Dublin, joined the Civic Guard...
...buying power, as represented by low wages, far behind. The rise in wholesale prices General Johnson called "appalling." Putting trade codes through the Washington mill had proved a slow, cumbersome process. Only one had been completed in six weeks. Something quicker, more drastic, more realistic was necessary to shore up the sagging foundation of national economy. Last week's proposal for a blanket work & wage agreement was the Administration's answer...
...Niagara Falls: a fight against the rapids in the lower Niagara River, through which no one else ever swam though several able swimmers have been drowned trying. Carried away by the current as he was foolishly trying to swim across the river to the Canadian shore, he emerged safely after being boiled and tossed the whole length of the rapids and the whirlpool below...
...Cold air from the centre of Greenland goes "coasting" out along the ice surface to cascade down on either shore. There it takes warmth from the sea, rises and flows back at a higher elevation. Thus a plane crossing Greenland in either direction might be spanked along by tailwinds all the way if the pilot knew his air currents...
...desk corner an enormous mariner's globe-not of much use since it is an antique and lacks the names of many places on P. A. A.'s lines. Salt water is in Juan Trippe's blood. His family settled on Maryland's sleepy Eastern shore in 1664. Great-great-grandfather John Trippe in 1804 sailed as third officer of the U. S. S. Vixen, got a Congressional Medal and a gold sword for battling the Barbary pirates. Great-grandfather John Trippe commanded the U. S. S. John Trippe, smallest sloop in the battle of Lake...