Word: vessels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Loss of energy "without apparent reason"; hot flashes,* with or without chilling or sweating; vasomotor (blood vessel) instability, causing occasional dizziness, numbness, faintness and heart palpitation; headaches; mild digestive disorders; vague temporary aches & pains; insomnia; nervousness and moodiness...
...Viking craft, built along the lines of Leif Ericsson's 10th Century vessel, sailed from Norway to New York en route to Chicago's World's Fair. Her welcome to the U.S. was so lavishly staged by the Norwegian Society of Brooklyn that six of her crew, including Captain Magnus Anderssen, ended up in Brooklyn's Butler Street police court charged with being drunk and disorderly. The presiding magistrate, James M. Tighe, who happened to be president of Brooklyn's own Celtic Varuna Boat Club, was not impressed with the difficulties of the Norsemen...
...record 65 sailing vessels are entered in the 635 mile run from the Brenton Reef Light-vessel to St. David's Head, according to the Cruising Club of America and the Royal Bermuda Club, co-sponsors of the race...
Under the present plan, the Svalbard, a vessel owned by Norway and leased to the International Refugee Organization, will leave New York for Rotterdam or Le Havre on June 22, returning to New York by September...
...drinking the divine nectar which was kept in the Kumbh (holy urn). They fought a full-scale war with the demons for possession of the Kumbh, and won. As the angels flew triumphantly to heaven with the urn, four drops of nectar fell to the ground from the vessel. Where the drops formed pools, every pious Hindu who bathes may end his earthly cycle of births and deaths, and release his soul into union with God. Best time to bathe is Kumbh-mela (Urn Festival), which occurs once every twelve years in each of the four cities where the drops...