Sentences with phrase «great ocean liner»

And the great ocean liner of public opinion turns.

From the great ocean liner's construction to its sinking to its discovery on the ocean floor, the key moments in the Titanic's history.

A rigorous grammarian, and a serious and intimidatingly well - read Catholic, Mary Ellen had wide and unusual interests, such as the great ocean liners of the past, and was part of a reading group that included Isaac Asimov.

The art is very much rendered in the style of the 1930s, when travel aboard great ocean liners made the business of venturing anywhere off your home shores an exercise in glamour and mystery.

People often hark back to the «Golden Age of Travel», normally associated with the 1930s, an era of great ocean liners, flying boats, the Orient Express and Nile river boats.

Experience a unique journey through the design stories of the world's greatest ocean liners, including the Titanic, Normandie, the Queen Mary

Experience a unique journey through the design stories of the world's greatest ocean liners, including the Titanic, Normandie, the Queen Mary and the Canberra, and discover how these impressive vessels still loom large in our cultural imagination.

Not exact matches

There may be a million asteroids with masses far greater than ocean liners in Earth - approaching orbits, nearly all of which telescopes have yet to see.

Their sense of their own importance showed when they walked the halls, rolling from side to side as if they were on board an ocean liner — which in a sense they were, without knowing it: a slow - moving Ship of Fools behemoth, heading willy - nilly for the great big digital iceberg.

Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when great shipping companies competed to build the biggest, fastest ocean liners, scientific advances dazzled the public with visions of a world transformed, and the rich outdid one another with ostentatious displays of wealth.

The V&A are the first to set sail with Ocean Liners: Speed & Style, which showcases the design and daring of some of the world's greatest vessels and considers their impact on the cultural imagination, while the National Maritime Museum Cornwall closes in on perhaps the most famous of them all: the Titanic.

If your own romanticism is pitched in history, you might like to roam (slowly) around the incredibly spacious website about the greatest of all the airships, the Zeppelins, which plied the Atlantic for many years, taking somewhere between 75 and 90 passengers from America to Europe in half the time of ocean liners.