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...Jersey coast the little vessel ran into a hammering storm. She was only 97 ft. long, with a beam of 22 ft. and a draught of 6 ft. 4 in. U. S. inspectors had approved her only for harbor hauls. When Captain Louis Hough, a white man, saw water in the engineroom, he decided to run for shelter behind Delaware Breakwater. Emanuel Valverde, his wife and Willie went below while the Captain vainly tried to get up a sea-bucking head of steam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Return of A Native | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

Those who prefer anecdotes have only to buy Clémenceau,? the new biography by his onetime secretary Jean Martet, which was included last week in the list of U.S. non-fiction best sellers. But minds strong enough to enjoy a draught of Clémenceau, grim, tremendous, stern and undiluted, will prefer Grandeur et Misere to anecdotes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Grandeur and Anecdotes | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

There is a two-Inch gap extending the entire length of the chimney wall to prevent water soaking through to the interior and causing a back draught...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Large Derrick Swinging Weights in Pendulum Style, May Be Used to Demolish Smokestacks at a Single Blow | 3/26/1930 | See Source »

From unpoetic, scantly praising Critic Henry Louis Mencken, Poet Hoffenstein's first book, Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing, won the epithet "incomparable." The book was a refreshingly satirical draught from the Plutonian spring. Poet Hoffenstein's second book, Year In, You're Out, contains much the same kind of thing in much the same manner, but here is less satire, more lyric yearning. Again it is Poet Hoffenstein's sourer vein that suits him best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pied Piper Sobering | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...hours, so has science and electricity aided the ancient art of brewing, the "Prince's Brew" was ready to be bottled and barreled. Edward of Wales was handed a copious draught of his own ale and pronounced a master maltster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Prince's Brew | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

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