Word: steeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East Coast the sixteenth victim of Nazi submarines, Standard Oil tanker W. L. Steed, went down...
...spotted a lifeboat half-filled with water and dead sailors, but had to leave them when a periscope broke water near by. Off Nova Scotia, 20 men of the 48-man crew of a torpedoed tanker were picked up. Three semiconscious survivors of the Standard Oil tanker W. L. Steed were safe in an Atlantic port, but 35 other crew members were missing...
...Kazak's life is to go skimming over the plains on his steed, rounding up horses or collecting stray cattle. His tent is warm, his clothing ample, his belly full, and he lives a free and untrammeled existence with religion sitting lightly...
Stefan Lorant is also author of the best-selling I Was Hitler's Prisoner, which British Editor Wickham Steed said would outlast the Third Reich. After the Hungarian Government got him out of a Nazi concentration camp, Lorant started Picture Post in London, ran up its circulation to 1,500,000 in a few weeks. With his first U.S. citizenship papers in his pocket, Lorant is working on a pictorial history of the U.S., of which Lincoln will be a part...
...Portugall, along the river Tagus, & about Lisbon, certaine it is, that when the westwind blowes, the mares set up their tailes, and turne them full against it, and so conceive that genitall aire in steed of naturall seed: in such sort, as they become great withall, and quicken in their time, & bring forth foles as swift as the wind, but they live not above three yeres...