Word: dock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, the Administration's Ship. Subsidy Bill appears to be safely laid up in dry-dock...
...platform with Admiral Sims, retired, whose best service to the American Navy was his retirement from it. I would suggest that when he is done shooting off the only weapon he is expert at--his mouth--he be escorted to the Cunard or White Star dock and given an opportunity to follow the trail and example of his ante-type, Benedict Arnold...
...length are to be submitted to the Chairman of the Board of Judges, Professor R. E. Chaddock, Kent Hall, Columbia University, New York City, not later than September 30, 1923. The Board of Judges having charge of the contest is made up as follows: Professor R. E. Chad dock, Chairman, Professor of Statistics at Columbia University: H. S. Dennison '99, President of the Dennison Manufacturing Company; A. D. Filene, Treasurer of William, Filene's Sons Company; Stanley Resor, President of the J. Walter Thompson Company; and Professor A. A. Young, Professor of Economics, Harvard University...
...England railroads is lower than that accorded the railroads which feed the other Atlantic ports. And this accounts for the recent trouble with one of the finest terminals of the railroad system--the port of Boston, which is broad, "deep chested", protected, and well furnished with excellent docking facilities; and what is still more in its favor from the point of view of the steamship companies, it is some three hundred miles, one day, nearer Europe than is New York, the nearest of the other ports. The steamship companies are glad to dock at Boston and would...
...picture for any money. It was a brave company, and not the least brave was Captain William Kidd, looking with a calm, unflinching eye on the vulgar herd waiting for the final scene in his romantic career. He was not the first of his profession to go to Execution Dock, which, as Stow has reminded us, was the usual scene of execution for hanging of pirates and sea-rovers at the low-water mark, and there to remain till three tides had overflowed them...