Word: hawser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while the earth inductor with which the earth's magnetic forces were measured was carried forward as far away from the stern as conditions permitted. It may interest your readers to know that the anchors carried were made of bronze and the anchor cable was very heavy Manila hawser. All stoves in galley as well as cooking utensils were of nonmagnetic material...
Expelled. Two moons have filled and waned since the S. S. Ryndam steamed from Manhattan, a "floating university" carrying 450 students, males, females (TIME, Sept. 27). Until two weeks ago, classes, lectures, excursions proceeded with fitting decorum. Then, at Yokohama, five students slipped down a hawser, escaped to nearby Tokyo, and put on there a drinking and "necking" spree at the Imperial Hotel. . . . By a vote of the Student Council aboard the Ryndam escapaders were promptly expelled, packed off for the U. S. on a returning steamer as the Ryndam steamed serenely...