Word: snouting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montgomery Howell, famed Chicago stock & grain operator, was swordfishing (he has caught four broadbills) off Montauk Point, L. I. with his small son and Captain Bill Fagan when he saw a long-drawn battle between a mako shark and a broadbill. Time after time the swordfish aimed its lethal snout at the shark, but each time the shark was too quick, raked the swordfish's hind end until "the sea looked like shredded wheat." As the dying swordfish was being pulled into Capt. Fagan's boat, the shark attacked again, was harpooned to prove the story...
...Angeles by Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. Commander Fred T. Berry, master, read aloud orders from a paper. Capt. Harry E. Shoemaker, commander of the station, did likewise. Then up stepped an orderly who hauled down the commission flag, a long, thin pennant which hung beneath the Los Angeles' snout. The training ship Los Angeles was now decommissioned after eight years. Reason: to save $280,000 a year...
Like all Fords, the big new plane is all-metal. Its wings spread no ft. From snout-like nose to ear-shaped rudder it measures 80 ft., the fuselage suggesting somewhat the flying-fish appearance of the Curtiss Condor. Inside each wing is built a 715-hp. Hispano-Suiza engine. The third engine, of 1,100 hp., is mounted atop the centre. Four passenger compartments are furnished with two standard Pullman sections each. A smoking compartment could accommodate additional passengers. There are two lavatories, a galley with gas stove...
...them to check the ship's momentum. When the bow pokes over the landing panel, the nose rope is dropped, attached to the cable from the mooring mast. The cable drums are started. In a few minutes the Akron has been dragged up to the mast, her pointed snout snugly clamped into the cup of the mooring-mast...
Last week his men-Germans, Indians and Thibetans-were high up the Zemu Glacier. They had rounded its crumbling snout the previous fortnight. The party had been cheery. Now they were plodding on, apathetic from the sight of double-dealing Death...