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...high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Up in the Green Dome | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...Capstan Navy Cut 2.30 Omar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tobacco Smoking | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...Ramsay Anon So sweet is she Anon Tobacco Hume Song of Momus to Mars Boyee A Kiss I begged Gamble She never told her love Haydn I'll sail upon the Dog-star Purcell Todtengrabers Heimweh Schubert Das Wandern Schubert (Solo and Chorus) Sea Shanties A-Roving (Capstan Shanty) Haul away Joe (Fore-sheet Shanty) What shall we do with the drunken sailor (Runaway Shanty) Shenandosh (Capstan Shanty) Billy Boy (Capstan Shanty) Hullabaloo belay (Harvards Shanty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOURTH WHITING CONCERT OF SEASON TO BE GIVEN TONIGHT | 3/7/1928 | See Source »

...Chamber of Commerce: "On the day I was appointed Vicerory, I recalled the day when, after being two months moored at the quay in Calcutta awaiting a cargo of jute, I stood under the fo'c'sle head taking my small part in heaving away on the capstan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Jul. 13, 1925 | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

...first Aerial Dreadnought is being built for the British Air Ministry. Some of its main features include living quarters, electric illumination, an electric capstan controlling a 125-pound anchor, two water-tight transverse bulkheads, sleeping quarters for five, a chart room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: A Dreadnaught | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

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