Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russian painter of Philadelphia, Capt. Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff, erstwhile of the Tsar's Cossacks (TIME, Dec. 19, 1927). Some years he goes to the Balkans. Once he went to Haiti with Naturalist William Beebe. Two years ago he went "up" north down the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean. Last summer he went to see the monasteries of Mount Athos in Greece, which have changed scarcely by one syllable of a prayer since the 4th and 5th Centuries. Last week he was telling his friends, and editing a cinema film to show others, about...
...painted ship upon a painted ocean is the Ambrose. Until last week she had not moved, except up and down with the tides, for 22 years. The steam that has been up in her boilers all that time was at last put to work, the pinochle game of a generation in her saloon was for once interrupted, her crew of 14 at last had something to do besides polish brass and blow the siren, as she pointed her blunt prow for a momentous voyage...
...ship rolled till sea water dashed over the funnels, how the steel walls of the rudder house had been squashed like a sardine tin. The Bremen, world's fastest liner, was forced to crawl for two days at five knots per hour, pouring oil on the water. In mid-ocean a gigantic wave set the ship nearly on its beam ends, knocked two teeth from the jaw of Monsignor William McKean of Bernardsville, N. J., broke the right thumb of one "Peppy" d'Albrew, Broadway tangoist. At that instant Col. Sam Park, famed socialite U. S. Vice Consul at Biarritz...
...anxious eight days the freighter which Mussolini had christened the Leonardo da Vinci, carrying a $70,000,000 cargo of Italian Renaissance Art, had been buffeted by one of Europe's worst storms (see p. 16). Escorted out of Genoa by an ocean-going tug, the Leonardo's captain had been instructed by Mussolini to keep in daily radio touch with the mainland, to hug the shore and in event of storm to put in at the nearest port...
...night in the year the female comes ashore to lay her eggs along the deserted southern beaches. A timid creature, the turtle takes fright at the slightest sound or light and retreats to the ocean, to return again at some more opportune time, always under the cover of darkness. How to photograph this episode in the life cycle of the turtle presented a problem which many investigators had been obliged to give up. Repeated tests, carried out on an island off the Georgia coast, indicated that when the turtle had once begun the actual egg-laying process she became oblivious...