Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beside him. Kick the right and left legs alternately and move the arms in a windmill fashion; the prospective victim should also call for help in a sharp tone. If this does not work, go back for further instructions. The man-eating shark can often be seen following the wake of boats in southern waters in hopes of garbage, and whaling ships used to vary the monotony of long voyages by endeavoring to catch the huge fish. Man-eating sharks sixty feet in length not being uncommon, the whalers sometimes were forced to use, extra anchors as hooks. The cruelest...
Meantime, the Algic case made a focal point of the "order and discipline" of the U. S. Merchant Marine. Chairman Kennedy last week revealed that his department had been deluged with complaints from travelers on U. S. ships. Samples: that stewards wake lone, pretty females with "Hi, Babe, get up . . . time for breakfast"; introduce male passengers to comely women aboard; address guests at breakfast, "Well, Buddy, what'll it be this morning"; even lay hands on young women in the corridors of ships. Of mutiny on the Algic, Chairman Kennedy remarked succintly, "I think it is scandalous...
Book Author Copies Sold Live Alone and Like It Marjorie Hillis 100,000+ Wake Up and Live! Dorothea Brande 115,000 Life Begins at 40 Walter B. Pitkin 185.000 How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie...
...plan "B", will keep a constant eye on any borderline cases, so that if the work of a student starts to improve, he can be shifted to full tutorial and groomed for honors. There are many men who enter college and waste the first two years, only to wake up in their Junior year and realize the value of honors work. Giving these men a chance to turn over a new leaf will be one of the most note-worthy parts of the new scheme...
Before they were out of sight of Wake Island, rolling seas separated the two boats, and neither Captain Tobias-who had previously lost two ships-nor his men were ever found. The longboat with its spindly mast and tattered sail struggled on. The concert singers cheered the company with song. Eighteen days from Wake Island, the forlorn, pitiable band, too weak to row or bail, burned black by sun, grounded their boat at Guam. Only account of this extraordinary voyage seems to have been published in the magazine, The Friend, which Colonel Bicknell ran across...