Word: fisherman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Delicately cracking a bottle of grape juice over its Gloucester fisherman's bow. Mrs. Charles Francis Adams, wife of the Secretary of the Navy, solemnly pronounced these words at Portsmouth, N. H., last week as the Navy's largest submarine slid down the stocks and out upon the Piscataqua River. Beside her stood her son, Charles Francis Adams Jr. and Admiral Charles F. Hughes, Chief of Naval Operations. Snow was falling on her fur coat, on her bouquet of roses. Navy men pressed about her solicitously, to shield her from the storm...
...Serenade (K. V. 525) W. A. Mozart March: Allegro Romance: Andante Minuet: Allegretto Rondo: Allegro III Danza de la Pastora (Dance of the Shepherdess) E. Halffter Arranged for the Aguilar Quartet by the Composer La Oracion del Torero, (The Toreador's Prayer) J. Turina Recitado del Pascador (The Fisherman's Narrative) M. de. Falls Arranged for the Aguilar Quartet by the Composer De Murcia Joaquin...
Knut Hamsun, 69, is a onetime shoemaker's apprentice, coal-heaver, schoolteacher, road-mender, farmhand, trolley conductor, fisherman. Twice he has visited the U. S. Now he lives with his family on an estate near Grimstad, Norway...
Watehers at the Blue Hill Observatory one morning last week saw 84 meteors during the early hours of the morning last week saw 84 meteors during the early hours of the morning, it was learned yesterday from Dr. W. J. Fisher, "Meteor fisherman" of the Harvard College Observatory...
...more are seen this week, predictions may be made about the coming great show. The entire civilized world is requested in a notice received from the Harvard Observatory to assist in searching for hitherto unknown records of past Leonid showers. Dr. Fisher, known as Harvard's "meteor fisherman", believes that a great many references to the Leonids exist which have not been found. He has already received notice of a chronicle in Syria, made in Damascus in the twelfth century, and containing astronomical observations as far back as the sixth century. Information has also been received that there are sources...