Word: vessel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that after an ocean voyage there might be those among the participants who would be but too glad to forsake the swaying decks of the good ship for the cobbled streets of Amsterdam the powers that be appear to consider even the slightly unpleasant associations of the vessel more to be sought than the unquestionably more violent swayings of the Dutch pavements...
Slav fishermen and Eskimos, residents on a remote island in Bering Strait, between Siberia and Alaska, learned last week with intense surprise from the first vessel that has visited them in 15 years that Russia, Germany, Austria, Turkey are no longer empires. When the ship's captain attempted to put to sea before all these changes had been satisfactorily explained, the Slavic peasants forcibly restrained him another day, some contending to the last that his answers to their questions proved him a liar or one gone...
Governor H. J. Allen wrote: "With a humility which is after all, the beginning of wisdom a number of students have asked for better opportunities to study international problems. Our vessel sailed out of Shanghai dock, as she had sailed in, to the accompaniment of fire crackers and cordial cheers exchanged between the docks and the decks. The fire cracker seems to be to the Chinese what the Aloha is to the Hawaiian. It's their way of saying welcome and goodbye with emphasis...
...difficulty even getting into Queenstown. The storm reached its climax two days later, when the waves were 60 feet high, and the wind had a velocity of 110 miles an hour. . . . The leak probably was the result of a rivet being worked loose by the laboring of the vessel. It was found there was no danger to the vessel and that only one of the four oil tanks was affected. I put the vessel's head toward Halifax and succeeded in coming within 19 miles of the port when our three tanks were finished...
...ship bound for Boston steamed into port. Leys was determined to board it for the homeward trip. He got a job helping to unload, and found that his chances of shipping aboard the vessel were very slender, as it already had one man, a stowaway, in irons to prevent his slipping ashore. There was nothing to do but wait for the next ship, while Plumer, wherever he might have been, made his way toward the goal...