Word: shoreward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a smart launch detached itself and cut shoreward from the side of the S. S. President McKinley as she steamed into Manila Bay. From the launch, which seemed the liner's emissary, stepped Col. Henry Lewis Stimson, emissary of the parent U. S. to the Philippines...
...plunged plucky James Montgomery Flagg, famed artist, well-paid pen-and-ink perpetrator of languid women, stout men, old home scenes. Beating through storm-twirled waves, while lightning flashed above him like a white, demented eyeball, he swam to the side of Isaac Cook, drowning realtor, pulled him shoreward. Mr. Cook, safe on shore, offered no word of thanks. His breath made no mist upon a mirror. Saved from drowning, he had died of heart disease...
...long combers of the Pacific were holding their usual stately parade into Laguna Beach, Calif. Luxuriating on the sands lay seminaked figures, brown with bathing, supple with youth, ripple-thewed from exercise. Watching the rollers lazily, the loafing ones would watch little figures scooting shoreward at the forefoot of a comber, lying flat in the foam or poised excitingly erect on flying surf boards...
Consider the herring. Its 60-odd species give it the rank of the world's most eaten fish. It abounds in the northern Atlantic, swims in schools of hundreds of millions. Its infants are smoked, canned, sold as sardines. Its younger set, coming shoreward for the first time to spawn, are caught as whitebait. The largest, known as "herring king," is named shad. He is dark blue above, white beneath and carries as much as ten pounds of most delectable flesh. But?and this is the fact Mr. Hoover will emphasize?37,000,000 less pounds of shad were caught...
From minnowhood, Sturly was curious. Feeding shoreward, along the Continental Shelf, he hailed all creatures-from poor groping Shrimps to surly Shong, the Hun Sturgeon. Curiosity became an unrest, a driving instinct to plumb Life...