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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chile, in fear of Peru, has built and opened the largest dry-dock in South America for the purpose of keeping her Navy at the highest point of efficiency...
There is old Maum Hannah, squatter, who asked the Lord what to do when a white-trash gentleman built a house on her land and was going to make her tear down her cabin?who got a sign from the Lord, and burnt that house to white fine ashes, such as fell out of her corncob pipe when she prayed. There is Killdee who ploughed on Green Thursday?Ascension Day?the day Jesus went back to God, wherefore he expected to be scourged, and was, for that night his little girl, Baby Rose, was burnt to death in the cookfire...
...experienced men in shells, under the direction of A. J. Hobson Jr. '24 and J. L. Hoover '24, and they will continue on the river until ice forms. The inexperienced candidates will have two weeks of machine work, after which they will be transferred to the "Leviathan", the recently-built barge which seats 20 men. As soon as they become proficient in the handling of sweeps they will be assingned places in shells. Coach Haines will personally direct the machine work of the green...
Ever since shipwrecked sailors built her a shrine, Ste. Anne de Beaupre has been visited and invoked by thousands yearly. The pilgrims have gone sick and returned well...
...even on a Ford. The tax yields the hard-pressed British Treasury about $65 million each year, and amounts to enough on each car to restrict con- siderably their widespread ownership. Moreover, gasoline retails at about 45 cents a gallon, which makes running expenses high. U. S. cars are built without especial consideration for their consumption of gasoline, where British cars are especially constructed to be economical of fuel. Yet U. S. cars have several positive advantages. They are better on hills, they are cheaper and easier to repair, and they are much less expensive to begin with. Lastly...