Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neckers, the rolling, spacious (1,900-acre) campus of the University of Wisconsin has always offered a goodly choice for a few hours on the Old Ox Road. Some couples, as the old song records, go up to Observatory Hill,* some to the shore of Lake Mendota; others just scatter. Last week Professor Howard Gill of the sociology department suggested that this phase of campus mores could stand a bit of organizing...
More than 1,500 miles from landfall at San Salvador, the caravels came upon smooth seas, drizzling rains and a whale. Whales had always been seen close to shore for the same good reason boatswain birds had: men had never sailed far enough to see them elsewhere. On Sept. 25, after sandpipers and a dove-supposedly sure harbingers of land-were reported, an island was "sighted" and Columbus knelt down and gave thanks to the Lord. The "island" was a cloud on the horizon...
Brief excerpt: "The river looked miles and miles across. The moon was so bright I could a counted the drift-logs that went a-slipping along, black and still, hundreds of yards out from shore. Everything was dead quiet, and it looked late, and smelt late ... It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather...
Last week, while clearing the waters off the east Korean shore, the Magpie's wooden hull bumped a floating mine. The explosion sent her to the bottom, with 21 of her crew, including her commander Lieut, (j.g.) Warren Roy Person; only twelve survivors were picked...
...director of health and safety for TVA, Dr. Eugene Lindsay Bishop has the job of keeping down malaria. It is a big job, because the 10,000-mile shore line of TVA's lakes offers the perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes. From the beginning, Dr. Bishop was convinced that the best way to fight mosquitoes was to raise and lower the water level in the reservoirs periodically. The plan worked, hit no snag until World War II's power shortage, when an engineer objected to dumping precious water. The Authority's top brass settled the dispute with...