Word: shoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Canadian schooner I'm Alone, freighted with 2,800 cases of liquor to be smuggled into the U. S., went down 200 miles off the Louisiana shore under U. S. Coast Guard gunfire last fortnight, inter- national law experts were ready to stand up and cheer with delight (TIME, April 1). Here was a case to argue endlessly. It bristled with fine points, with nice distinctions. Many an analogy was drawn between rum-running in 1929 and African slave-running...
Rough water near the Cambridge shore prevented a trial over the measured course and the race was rowed close to the Boston wall. these informal races will be continued until the weather conditions are ripe for sending the crews over the mile and three quarter course on the lower Charles River...
...state Czeckoslovakia got the whole of Upper Hungary with more than one million Hungarians. To the newly reorganized Balkan kingdom Jugoslavia was delivered the south part of old Hungary, with Hungary's sole sea-shore and the harbor of Fiume, with about 600,000 Hungarians. And finally, Austria, Hungary's erstwhile spouse with whom she lived during the four hundred years of a very unhappy international marriage, got a bit of old Hungary with about 65,000 Hungarians. Nevertheless as is well known, because the United States Senate refused to ratify the so called Treaty of Trianon, the United States...
...would be blown because there would be no cross streets and no pedestrians, and that motor cars on a smooth park road make little noise. The drive would be crossed by footbridges so that pedestrians would not be endangered. It seems unreasonable for a few residents on the Boston shore to insist that they be supplied with a rural park at their back doors. Great cities cannot provide secluded and quiet groves to residents of congested centers...
Bermuda will be the first stop, from the 25 to the 27 and the men will be given plenty of shore leave to see the island. Leaving, they will alive at Havana on July 2, spend the Fourth in Cuba, and depart about the 6. Charlestown is to be reached on July 8, and they will return to Boston...