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Word: afloat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general effect than the occasional murals and ornamental work in metal, wood and glass. In an apparent effort to make some distinction between tourist and cabin class quarters, the designers gave cabin class passengers a little Coromandel wood and gold. Finest rooms: the theatre, only air-conditioned one afloat, designed by Cornelis J. Engelen and Elisabeth de Boer in the shape of half an egg shell, with a rich color scheme of old rose, cerise, dull gold and red copper; Architect Oud's tourist class lounge, with a magnificent gay scarlet carpet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sea Design | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

Author Adamic's new name for the U. S. is a socio-economic "Sargasso Sea." But if Author Adamic considers himself afloat in a socio-economic chaos, he also claims to have a navigation chart that explains it. How he discovered this chart is a long story, requiring 44 pages to tell. The story, told in Dynamite and here expanded, is that of the McNamara case and the Syndicalist dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times Building in 1910. For Adamic, who heard the story from an old Socialist in 1928, violence "à la McNamara" is the chart that explains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sargasso Seasickness | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...ship had 374 private bathrooms (a record for her size), 23 public rooms so arranged that all could be thrown together to make her a one-class ship for cruises, two swimming pools, a theatre, more complete air-conditioning and fire protection than any ship afloat, aluminum lifeboats. Most notable of all, her interior decoration ranked her at once as one of the most beautiful ships on the Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Pride of Holland | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--Senate opponents of President Roosevelt's super-navy program today charged the Chief Executive with embarking on a secret and dangerous foreign policy to be supported by the most powerful armada afloat, and demanded that Congress and the people be allowed to pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 4/22/1938 | See Source »

Third biggest vessel in the world and oldest big liner afloat, Cunard White Star's Berengaria (launched as the German Imperator in 1912) last week sailed empty back to England on what may be her last Atlantic crossing-branded a fire hazard by the U. S. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation. Once last year the Berengaria caught fire during an overhaul. In Southampton last month flames blazed for two hours below decks, burned out a section of the Berengaria's, third class, but did not prevent her sailing to the U. S. on schedule. While...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Berengaria Blaze | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

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