Word: afloat
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...little boat, a 19-day trip through seven fearful storms that amounted practically to one continuous storm. He had even held a camera steady enough to photograph the deck after a sea broke over the bow. Pinnacle and compass were washed overboard. Water poured in, set the food afloat in the galley. Five times a tilt of a wave threw the green-faced cook onto the hot stove. The men slept in their oilskins. For 18 hours Shamrock plowed through the Gulf Stream under bare poles. A seam opened in the delicate bow, bashed 'by tons of water every...
...Leviathan, loaded to the gunwales with ambitious Freshmen, plied its lumbering course up and down the Charles throughout the afternoon. There were 13 eight-oared crews afloat, four each of experienced Freshmen and veterans of the University season. Six boats of 150-pounders went out, also to try their oars for the first time this fall...
...open: to hunt, trap, ride, cook. One morning, when Will was a boy in his 'teens, he woke to find the camp fire almost out, and no Bopy in sight. They were camped near a river, and in the river the boy found their battered bucket still kept afloat by the ice. That was the only trace he ever discovered of the old Frenchman...
Senator Allen was away from Kansas at the time, touring the globe as professor of journalism with the University Afloat (TIME, Sept. 27, 1926 et seq). He got word in Berlin of the Murdocks' coup. He rushed home, tried to fight the Eagle with its own weapons, made no headway. In the spring of 1928 came the Levands, reputedly through the efforts of a wealthy Wichitan whom the Murdocks' Eagle had offended...
...most important one, the most ticklish one to lay, cost more than $1,000,000. Two steel cables, one inch in diameter, stretched out from shore to tie the pipe to its land base. Along the pipe's length were 120 tanks of compressed air, keeping it afloat...