Word: spraying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sunning themselves on a pier at Cattolica, bathing resort near Ravenna on the Adriatic, were Signora Benito Mussolini and her 15-year-old daughter, Edda. A heavy sea was running. The wind was whistling. Spray was flying. Cutting the air like a scimitar came cries for help. Up jumped Edda, peered seawards, saw a bobbing head. Without hesitation she dived into the roaring brine. With long, strong strokes, she propelled herself to the bobbing head, which she discovered to belong to a woman. As the drowner was about to sink, Signorina Mussolini grabbed her, managed to keep her afloat until...
Miss Louise A. Boyd of San Francisco, Miss Elaine Wilcox of Denver, Mrs. William Grant of Denver, Mrs. George de Benneville Keim of Philadelphia, Mrs. Frank Mebane of Spray, N. C.; Mrs Claude A. Swanson of Washington and Richmond, Va., Mrs. Eliot Wadsworth of Washington and Boston, Mrs. Horace Lee Washington, wife of the Consul General in Liverpool...
...trawlers Spray and Foam, groping the Atlantic for 750 miles off the Virginia Capes with a mile of steel cable sagging between them along the ocean floor, last week had a bite. The cable tightened, went taut, snapped. Whatever it had snared was ponderous. Repaired, the cable caught again and soon Diver Fred Neilson of Brooklyn clamped on his helmet, dropped overside like a sinker, 213 feet to the bottom. When he followed his stream of bubbles back up to the surface, he told his comrades that they had indeed found the Merida, a ship sunk 14 years...
...backers, a syndicate called the Sea Hawks, organized last year and sent the Spray and Foam on a prospecting cruise. The Merida was found then, as it had been previously by other would-be salvagers, but heavy autumn seas prevented diving...
...Surgeon General's conference, no one will suggest that tetraethyl lead is not poisonous. The question will be: Would the exhausts of automobiles burning tetraethylized gasoline spray the country with creeping infirmity and death...