Word: shored
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Navy had spent $174,000 on the Mercury. Lieut. Williams, who had a shore assignment for twelve years, had been ordered to sea at his own request, after the Mercury's failure. "Such a romantic proposal" as a deliberate crack-up at the Schneider races was promptly vetoed. Lieut. Williams had been given opportunity to make his experiment a success...
...officials of Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo last week a group of indignant North Shore residents protested, demanded that monkeys and what they do be removed from public view. "Not on your life!" said one zoo official to reporters. "Not until they put pants on bulls and skirts on cows...
...partially verified the rumor. General Koutiepoff had been kidnapped in a red taxicab in the Rue Rousselet, they admitted. On the evening of Jan. 26 an unidentified Russian woman at Cabourg, tiny Norman fishing village, had seen the red taxicab and a mysterious grey limousine draw up by the shore. A man dressed as a gendarme and a woman in a tan coat had stepped out, carrying a limp figure which was placed in a motor boat which instantly sped off in the direction of Houlgate. Other witnesses announced that a Russian merchantman had been lying off the mouth...
...flight to Rome (TIME, July 22). The place Capt. Yancey stood ready to fly to was one whither no man had ever flown from the U. S.?a 20 sq. mi. pinprick n the Atlantic, 580 mi. offshore?Bermuda. One little slip in navigating and a plane from shore would shoot by Bermuda out over the boundless wastes of the Atlantic...
...longer than 48 hours after arriving at the Pribilofs, each gives birth to a pup. Two weeks later the cow seals desert their progeny, returning at ever-lengthening periods to feed them, investigate their growth, teach them how to swim. Their rookeries are situated along the shore or a little inland among the barren rocks...