Word: ghent
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...Peace of Ghent," Professor Baxter, Harvard...
...American ship Sundance, charged with the murder of one of his crew in a foreign seaport. As my occupation is similar to his I wish you would inform me of the outcome of his trial. . . . JOHN M. WHEATON Port Arthur, Tex. While the Sundance was discharging cargo at Ghent, Mate Adams dragged mutinous Seaman Myak Wooker, 6-ft.-6-in. Esthonian, from beneath a bunk. Seaman Wooker seized a fire axe. Mate Adams shot him dead. Belgian authorities cleared Mate Adams. Last month, charged. with murder on the high seas, Mate Adams was freed by a Manhattan grand jury...
Three weeks ago when the U. S. freighter Sundance docked at Ghent, Seaman Myak Wooker, 6 ft. 6 in. Esthonian, defied Chief Mate Leonard C. Adams, refused to work unloading cargo. He hid under his bunk. Mate Adams dragged him out. They fought. Wooker seized a fire axe. Mr. Adams drew his revolver, fired twice at close range, killed the sailor. Belgian authorities cleared Mr. Adams but when the Sundance reached Rotterdam he was relieved of his post after the skipper received a petition...
...issue: Belgians are linguistically a mixture of French speakers and Flemish speakers, each faction striving to oust the language of the other from Belgium's schools. Last February the famed University of Ghent was made 100% Flemish-speaking by Parliament. Recently Minister of Science & Arts Maurice Vauthier decreed that no professor from the University of Ghent may teach in other Belgian colleges...
...victory was really out of bounds, because the Treaty of Ghent had been executed two weeks before; 'but no more out of bounds, in Secretary Good's opinion, than the cows that now roam the unguarded field where it was achieved. After his victory at New Orleans, "Old Hickory" Jackson returned to Tennessee, where in a cedar grove a dozen miles from Nashville he built for his misunderstood Rachel the Hermitage, famed in Democratic song and story. When Jackson was the first U. S. President of the "common people" (1829-37), the fine ok southern mansion...