Word: shoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scatological ballads (such as The French Crisis) as he was as a children's poet. Poet Field was nobody to conduct a Sunday school class, and would have been the first to admit it. But last week, at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter in the North Shore Chicago suburb of Kenilworth, school children gathered about the tomb of Eugene Field on the day before the 44th anniversary of his death. A Boy Scout and a Girl Scout laid wreaths on the tomb. Read and sung were Wynken, Blynken and Nod, Little Boy Blue, The Drum...
...wormed and twisted" his way into Scapa Flow on the surface (mines and nets are 30 ft. down) on a night when there was "the most extraordinary display of Northern Lights I have seen in 15 years at sea." He said: "I was lying in very close to shore and several cars passed. One stopped for a moment, then turned about and rushed back at full speed. . . . These people must have seen me-nobody else could have in the shadow of the shore line...
...that he disguised his superstructure to resemble a British submarine and boldly followed in the wake of a returning British ship, copying her recognition flash signals as they passed guardian destroyers. Or Prien may have picked out a channel, perhaps through Switha Sound, so close to shore that it was deemed by the British unthinkably dangerous and not worth mining or netting. But his own account of the adventure pointed most strongly to the eastern entrance of Scapa Flow, through narrow Holm Sound, where rocks and wrecks block all but a narrow gut close up to the main Orkney Island...
Sixty-eight-year-old Henry C. Turner, a Quaker from Maryland's tony Eastern Shore, came out of Swarthmore in 1893, when the U. S., ceasing to stretch out, was beginning to build up, turning to reinforced concrete to do it with. His company grew rapidly, helped by generous orders from Paper Magnate Robert Gair, Warehouse Magnate Irving Bush. Up to Sept. 15, 1939 it had done $434,333,000 worth of business, eight of its jobs exceeding $5,000,000 apiece, 126 running from $1-$5,000,000. Nineteen twenty-nine was its best year (gross...
...Reich (see p. 21) , dipped their swastika flags three times in salute to the Soviet flotilla which replied with three dips of the hammer & sickle. Orders then cracked, Soviet gunners leaped to their positions, and a Red salute of 21 guns belched out over Tallinn, smartly returned by shore batteries...