Word: spume
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cuba. Hurricane groped across the Bahama Bank north of Cuba, turned away from Cuba, killed seven in the Bahamas, turned again and struck at Cuba's northern hump. In Havana harbor, huge seas overthrew the Malecon sea wall, scattered stone blocks like spume, flooded the water- front six blocks inland to a depth of six feet. In full force the hurricane hit the port of Cardenas in Matanzas Province, swept a tidal wave over the city, sank a gunboat in the harbor, destroyed docks, warehouses and the railroad station, cut off water and light, killed 30, injured 100. Cardenas...
From the depths of the English Channel last week the grey conning tower and then the deck of a British submarine rose, spume-flecked, at an historic moment. His Majesty's sub had chanced to bob up directly between the two fastest liners in the world, both German: the nine-month-old Bremen bound for Bremerhaven, and her new sister ship, the Europa, maiden-voyaging to New York...