Word: deck
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...board has now issued a call for 2,000 more men; which includes both-seamen and apprentices for deck officers' positions. Henry Howard, director of the Shipping Board's recruiting service, states that there never has been a time in the history of American shipping when the demand for merchant crews was so great as it is now. The positions, on going to sea, command salaries of from $55 to $75 a month, according to the rating, and in addition, board and living quarters are furnished free...
...sufficing reason is on deck--Cornell harbors no intellectual derelicts. In this best of all possible worlds, it becomes necessary for the college student to organize himself mentally for the trials and tribulations of the coming term, else the battle-scarred survivors of this term's finals be but a handful...
...join the Merchant Marine are first given preliminary training as uniformed apprentices, either in the deck or in the engineer department of a training ship to help them find their "sea legs," before going aboard a merchant vessel. This training is given on board large, well equipped ships, supplied with every accessory to healthful living. The training is intensive for two months, with a wholesome system of instruction and exercise lasting eight hours a day, and with proper intervals for rest and recreation. The apprentices are paid $30 a month, and given a uniform...
...Nation's share in the war for civilization. I knew it was our notice to the world that all we had done in this thrice-busiest year of our Nation's life is but a beginning of what we shall do. It was Paul Jones's cry from the deck of the Bonhomme Richard, magnified by steam and a million trumpets of brass--"We've just begun to fight!" Wild, discordant, terrible it was--it is, for it will ring in my ears henceforth--our tocsin! the tocsin of a hundred million people speaking one wrath and one purpose...
...desiring to take advantage of this instruction should report on board the U. S. S. Kearsarge at either of these two periods, ask for the Officer-of-the-deck, and state that he wishes to join one of the classes to be organized at that time...