Word: shoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tuna-fishing schooner Santa Amaro, Manuel Rodriguez, Master. The Santa Amaro, lying off Marchena Island, one of the northernmost of the Galapagos group, had exciting news to report. Passing bleak, barren, fresh-waterless Marchena that morning her crew spied a small skiff hauled high on the rocks of the shore. Swinging closer they saw a tall pole and fluttering from it a few limp rags. On shore they found a dead seal with strips of flesh hacked from it, a few bits of iguana meat, and two human corpses...
After a long search for the highest possible ground where they could carry on experiments to be conducted for six months, the group chose the plateau at the edge of Tibet, which they could reach from India. The site of the camp will be near the shore of Lake Tso-Moriri, recently surveyed by a Yale geologist, at altitudes of from 17,000 to 22,000 feet. Starting from Bombay the expedition will go north through Kashmir and 400 miles across passes as high as 17,000 feet...
Contrary to general belief the Auk was not an Arctic bird. It bred and lived in Iceland and on the islands off Newfoundland where French fishermen were responsible for its extinction. Auk hunting was simplicity itself. A gangplank was laid from a fishing boat to a rock on shore. Inquisitive Auks waddled painfully aboard, were knocked on the head and dumped in the hold...
...this extensive project is the work on the rive. This has caused the presence of the diver, the spectators, and half of the men, with their paraphernalia. For they are busy building a coffer dam out in the river, which is hold the water off men working on the shore...
...Governor Ritchie had been told by his campaign manager that on the basis of late election returns he had no chance of a fifth successive term at Annapolis.* Victor by 5,000 votes was Republican Harry W. Nice, who capitalized on Governor Ritchie's unpopularity on the Eastern Shore following his anti-lynching stand last autumn (TIME...