Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only in sailing ships. He hates steamers. "I love to fight the storm," he continued, "and I love my boat. I am going back to it in a few days; I'm not at home on land. Sailors are the greatest fraternity, and the sailors of wind-jammers are the aristocrats of the bunch. I've been six times around the world, and sailing men are the same all over...
...Privacy? No. Overcrowded? Yes. But there is no lack of ventilation. With the temperature below freezing and a 30-mile wind howling down the valleys and across the hillsides, there is warmth and a measure of comfort in snuggling up close as the cold air rushes in through the unmatched boards. . . . The $3-a-week allowance from the union must furnish food, clothing and other necessaries. For a family of five this means a little less than 9 cents per day. . . ." (New York Evening World...
Sentimentalists over sports were disturbed to learn last week that the Army-Navy football game for 1928 is, after all, completely canceled. Navy announced curtly its football season would wind up Nov. 24 against Princeton. Again sentimentalists started. For the first time in the history of the oldest rivalry in football (51 years) Princeton will meet a college other than Yale in her curtain game. After playing Yale Nov. 17, Princeton will journey to Philadelphia against Navy. Students of the situation noted that the Princeton-Navy agreement carried a clause for two more years, the games to be played...
...Angeles on the deck of the aircraft carrier Saratoga. So delicate and important was the experiment that news was guarded until the trick was turned. Nosing out to sea last week the Los An-geles met the Saratoga off the Virginia Capes. Both headed into the light, gusty wind. The dirigible dipped gently, close to the carrier; then bucked like a frightened horse. A vagrant gust tossed it 200 feet in air. Again it angled downward, its sensitive nose smelling the sea ship tentatively. Ropes were dropped, sailors dragged the huge sky ship closer, held it fast. A hose...
...since last week, frayed. A severe wind which zigzagged for 200 miles across Ohio and Kentucky tore off Cincinnati roofs, toppled houses. It also damaged Hamilton, Ohio, and Louisville...