Word: shoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gusty squalls, perilously close to the water. Her altimeter failed. A broken exhaust ring spurted flame. Gasoline from a leaky gauge dripped down her neck. But still she flew low because "I'd rather drown than burn up." Pushed north by beam winds she met the shore of Northern Ireland, set her ship down on a farm field...
...compromise singles race was won by J. U. White '34 in a final heat against G. R. Clark '32 and J. D. Sicher '35. In the course of the half-mile contest, Sicher's shell capsized; the contestant dragged the boat to shore, dumped the water out of it, and continued the race to receive third place...
...storms broke. The winter night descended, the cold stiffened the tossing waves flat. High winter tides exploded the whole ocean's frozen surface into the air, with thunderclaps, bellows, sea-qiiaking crashes. At those sounds many a polar settler has burst out of his cave, run yelling along the shore waving his arms, insane. Traveler Welzl never stirred outside his cave, where the temperature touched 86� below. Though lonely and cold the life was Eskimo...
...turns around and eats it. After some 23 molts the shell is tough, the lobster considers himself a man and goes off in search of a batch of eggs to fertilize. In the winter lobsters live in mud at the bottom of the sea five or six miles from shore. In April and May they move shoreward to feed. In its old age a lobster may reach the length of 23-75 in, as did one caught off the New Jersey coast in 1897, weight 34 Ib. In his Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (Rome, 1555), Olaus Magnus states that between...
...Victorian conceptions of industry and trade is a tragic setting for a book, and even the numerous amusing anecdotes and descriptions of the Vagaries of the British mental process cannot make the cynical tone which implies that these things are true, and pass for normal on the opposite shore of the Atlantic. The writer concentrates on the vast changes in the social life of present day England, as contrasted with the static, almost unwordly condition of public life and commerce, and does not go nearly so intensely into the desperate economic situation of the country as Mr. Andre Siegfried...