Word: shoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Here they were counterattacked by Basque militia, for the most part fishermen and their armed wives. When the Italians broke ranks, the bloodthirsty fishwives chased them into houses, beat them, threw them out of windows. Many escaped by jumping the sea wall, swimming two miles to the eastern shore of Guernica Inlet...
...back to the shelter of nearby Santander, still held by Leftists. High in the air there suddenly appeared a flight of Leftist bombing planes. The 15,45 2-ton Espana was launched 24 years ago, but she had been recently fitted with new German anti-aircraft guns. Watchers on shore could see them go into action, white woolly puffs bursting all round the circling bombers. What happened next was a splendid moot point for naval historians. Loyalists say one of their air bombs plopped straight down the Espana's funnel. Rebels insist that the Espana struck a floating mine...
...pound race will be over the Henley Course (one mile and five-six-teenths), finishing near the Cambridge bank between the Tech Sailing Pavilion and the subway bridge. Best place to watch this race: follow in car along Cambridge shore, or standing on bank near finish...
Rough water along the lower part of the Basin cut the scheduled time trial of the Varsity 150 pound crew and the third Varsity short to a half mile yesterday afternoon. But in that brief spin along the Cambridge shore it was evident again that Bert Haines' current first eight is one that easily stands alongside Tom Bolles' Varsity and Jayvee boatloads in excellence...
...with the heart to kill the creatures. In 1910, about 40,000 of them were herded onto boats, ferried out to the rocky, uninhabited Island of Oxia in the Sea of Marmora, there left to starve (see cut). For months their piteous barkings echoed across Marmora to the Anatolian shore. A few kindly citizens rowed out with food, but the task was hopeless...