Word: shoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group which lies some 200 miles southeast of Honolulu. Hilo, second largest city of th Islands, situated on Hawaii, received warning an hour in advance. Its airport was evacuated. Within a few minutes bombers from the fleet circled overhead dropping hypothetical explosives. In short time the squadron standing off-shore was firing salvos of blank shells. In half an hour Hilo was in "ruins," the attacker "landing" virtually unopposed. Next da when the main fleet of attackers descended on Oahu, the island of Hawaii served thei as a base...
Loch Ness, largest of Scotland's lakes (22½ mi. long, 1¾ mi. wide), bisects the Highlands from Inverness on the northeast to Fort Augustus- on the southwest. Near its narrow shores are many a Highland distillery, many towns and glens intimately connected with haberdashery: Inverness (tweed capes), Glen Urquhart (gents' suitings), Glen Garry (highland bonnets). Ben Nevis, best publicized mountain in Scotland, is only 30 mi. to the southwest. In August 1933 when workmen were blasting a new motor road along the west shore of the lake, the monster was first "seen." Eyewitnesses during the following...
There are three hunting scenes, four nudes, two representations of square-rigged ships. Dream of a Child is a Santa Claus and horses vaguely limned in pink highlights. In Three-Masted Schooner, green and bronze hues on the sails seem to reflect light from both shore and sea. Most striking of the nudes depicts an olive-skinned brunette and a rosy blonde reclining in affectionate languor on a couch, the pink sands of the Mediterranean gleaming through a window, a pink curtain blowing across a table, a statuet of a man on a pedestal in the background...
Best place to watch the race: Along the Cambridge bank near the finish or on the Massachusetts Ave Bridge. Crews will pass through the seventh and eighth arches out from the Cambridge shore...
...newly dead woman has thrice come from her tomb. Emerging for the fourth time the woman speaks, warns the assembled crowd that "the city of masterless men will take a master." Soon a runner comes through the crowd with word that the Conqueror has landed on the nearby shore. The priests tell the people that their gods will protect them. A liberal statesman (Actor Meredith) counsels nonresistance. Before the people can make up their minds what to do, the Conqueror is among them, "broad as a brass door: a hard hero: heavy of heel on the brick." Only the announcer...