Word: dewey
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...Elcano is an old Spanish gunboat captured by Admiral Dewey in the Battle of Manila Bay. Some years ago she was refitted and sent to occupy a station of the Yangtze Patrol Gorges at Ichang, just below the Yangtze Gorges. The trials and tribulations the Elcano met with in navigating the comparatively quiet stretch ot river between Hankow and Ichang make a legend dear to the hearts of the merchant skippers at Ichang. Some say she was towed up by hundreds of Chinese trackers, and others that she came up under her own power, making sometimes as much...
...Memorial Hall Mr. J. R. Moore, sects, 1, 24 Memorial Hall Mr. Strake, sects. 2, 11 Memorial Hall Mr. Carpenter, sect. 15 Geol. Lect R. Mr. Roberts, sects. 5, 16 Geol. Lect. R. Mr. Smyser, sect. 7 Geol. Lect. R Mr. Bowers, sects. 10, 18 Emerson D Mr. Dewey, sects 17, 29 Emerson D Mr. Wright, sect. 12 Harvard 2 Mr. Ford, sect. 4 Harvard 3 Mr. T. E. Moore, sects, 18, 23 Harvard 5 Mr. Harvey, sects, 21, 28 Harvard 5 Fine Arts 10a Robinson hall Fine Arts 11 Fogg Mus Government 15 Sever 17 History 5a Sever...
...Washington, Jackson, Harrison, Taylor, Grant, Roosevelt were hero-warrior Presidents. Two other dashing generals, but poor politicians, Winfleld Scott and W. S. Hancock, were nominated and defeated. Admiral George Dewey tried for the nomination in 1900 and fizzled...
...Monitor and Merrimac, of Dewey in Manila Bay. It was President Roosevelt in 1907 when he sent the fleet around the world who first demonstrated that the Navy was a potent organization instead of a few glamorous names, a few precocious children of Fate. The Navy today lacks immortals, but is big with efficiency...
...earthquake (or fire if you prefer), when people turning over for a last snooze before breakfast found themselves exposed to the startled public view and sliding pajamaed into the street; riotous nights in New York when Barymore and his cronies stole the huge plaster sword from the Dewey arch and paraded with it through every bar on Broadway; nights not so riotous but equally fertile in reminiscence, nights that ended with a breakfast of hot water, pepper and salt in default of money to buy anything more filling; this is the kind of a life that everyone yearns...