Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour later Captain Heard, taking advantage of a favorable blow, sailed up bow to bow with the defender. Then Enterprise had the luck, drew away again. Shamrock V had crowded on too much canvas, was falling farther astern. Down two lanes of destroyers and pleasure craft following in the wake, the two stately yachts sailed...
...promised first hard scrimmage for Harvard's football team came yesterday morning and left in its wake an injury to a veteran guard of team A ranking. G. N. Talbot '32 suffered a leg injury about halfway through the half-hour scrimmage and will be forced to remain out of practice for at least a week, probably more...
Archibald Roosevelt, third son of the late great President, set out with two friends by night in a Samoan canoe to cross New York Bay from Staten Island. A steamer's wake capsized, a lighter rescued them...
Major William Kennelly, barrel-chested president of the New York Athletic Club, saw from his yacht a canoe upset in the wake of a Manhattan ferry, dived to the rescue of the floundering canoeist, one Don O'Reilly, saved his life...
...column whirls at the rate of 150 m. p. h., these twisters are seldom long lived. Tornadoes over land last longer, travel from 30 to 50 mi. Greatest in the U. S. was that of 1925 which stretched a ribbon of destruction across Missouri, Illinois, Indiana. In its wake were 695 dead and $16.500,000 worth of tangled, destroyed property.* Instead of transporting water, tornadoes carry chickens, small live stock, lumber, outhouses. Houses and barns in the path of a tornado are not blown down but explode. The vacuum column draws the air from around the house, the inside pressure...