Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent months at least 25 ships of British registry have been attacked in the Mediterranean, numerous Russian ships have been sunk, French merchantmen have been fired on. Last week the British destroyer Havock was also on Mediterranean patrol, off Alicante. Shooting past her went the long white wake of a submarine torpedo. Out crackled a message for help and whooshing overboard went a cylindrical depth charge, then another and another till seven had geysered salt water up into the air. The destroyer Hasty zipped at 38 knots to the rescue of her sister ship, but by the time...
...green, a professor emeritus, likes to watch from his window the sport which he once played and which remains a major one at the college. Quaker Jones held to his pacifist principles through the World War, helped organize the Service Committee afterward to mop up wherever possible in its wake. Good-humored, he is fond of telling stories about his Quakerism, such as how a conservative Friend, at a Philadelphia meeting at which Dr. Jones was to speak, arose and prayed: "Oh Lord, prepare our minds and hearts for the untruths we are about to hear." Once in England...
...tropical Pacific. Although a geologist, he took the trip largely for the purpose of observing "animal adaptation and behavior." Watching for natural phenomena, he studied the appearance of the water just before a flying fish lifted from it. This, said he in Science last week, "was not like the wake of a boat, nor like the ruffled water behind an aeroplane taking off. It was rather a series of dots in two parallel rows, thus : : : : : : :, and was undoubtedly made by the tips of the fluttering wings before the fish had completely cleared the water." The fish, he said, moved close...
...country place at Fair Haven, N. J. His wife, Josie, likes to entertain his friends. They have no children. He smokes cigarets incessantly, drinks much coffee, is a bundle of nervous energy, able to sleep best at the movies although his snoring causes people to poke him and wake...
...innocuously through You Can't Have Everything without appreciably altering its merits as a smart and tuneful musical, cut from the same unpretentious pattern as its predecessors in Producer Darryl Zanuck's recent musical cycle (Sing Baby Sing, Pigskin Parade, One in a Million, On the Avenue, Wake Up and Live...