Word: afloat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been roughly handled. Cunard's Mauretania, commissioned in 1907, is still the fastest British ship but her old records have been broken by Germany's Bremen and Europa, Italy's Conte dl Savoia and Rex. White Star's flagship Majestic is still the biggest ship afloat but soon she will be surpassed by France's Normandie. Balm for British pride lies on the ways of John Brown & Son's shipyard in Clydesbank, Scotland - Cunard's unfinished No. 534 (probable name: Princess Elizabeth), the skeleton of a 73,000-ton monster which will...
...Board, its authority on Naval air strategy. A year ago he was made commander of the Battle Force. Last week in the annual shift of Navy posts, he was slated for the post of Commander-in-Chief of the United States Fleet-the Navy's No. 1 officer afloat. Thus for the first time will a trained master of air as well as water tactics become the supreme commander of U. S. sea forces after...
...nearest European settlement, in Java, 3,600 miles away. Prevailing easterly winds made a return to Tahiti impossible. The boat was only 23 feet long, so heavily laden that there was less than nine inches of freeboard amidships. They had to bail almost continually to keep afloat...
...takes showmanship nowadays to keep even so great an orchestra as the Philadelphia Symphony afloat. But showman-ship is just what Conductor Leopold ("Prince") Stokowski has a great deal of. His blond mop waving proudly, his piercing eye darting sharply among dowagers and debutantes, he was the stage manager of a show one evening last week in Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. The evening's serious business was to auction off 600 unsold season concert tickets but before the hammer began falling and donors began digging down, a rare collection of talent was exhibited...
...their day. Economics reigns. And it certainly cannot be said that wisdom chokes them! For they have not always a human countenance. They are often octopuses, formless anonymous monsters, whose thousand arms grope, and whose blind trunks lap in the dark. And the few individuals, whose personalities . . . still keep afloat . . . are nearly all, today, artificial products, without roots or seeds, without ancestors or descendants, without ties, associates or future." This is the theme of the latest stave in Romain Rolland's protracted swan son?. Author Rolland's famed ten-volume Jean Christophe, published before the War, told everything...