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...Vice President D. R. McNeil of the company, and the crew of 80, felt her swerve, stagger. Rushing on deck they saw a horrifying fiery geyser - "like an umbrella of flame"; - rise skyward at the bow, found themselves enveloped in it. Their vessel had rammed 504,000 gal. of hightest gasoline, cargo of the Pinthis, owned by Lake Tankers Corp. (Mallory Lines subsidiary). For a roaring moment the two craft locked, then the Pinthis sank with her crew of 18. The Fairfax was doused in flame. Human torches rushed about, dove vainly for relief into the blazing sea. Down came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Fairfax & Pinthis | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...college long to see Harvard again in the lead in athletics as in intellectual pursuits. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well; and for Harvard well must always mean better than any other college. For her there should be no excellence but the hightest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/24/1896 | See Source »

WANTED.-All kinds of Gent's cast-off Clothing. Hightest cash prices paid. We make a specialty of cleaning, reparing, pressing and dyeing all kinds of Ladies' and Gents' Clothing. Call or send postal to William H. Brown, 465 Mian Street, Cambridgeport. All orders promptly attended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 4/3/1888 | See Source »

...derive some benefit for his college and much pleasure for himself from his visit. He naturally noticed that the stock of honorary degrees conferred by Harvard was exhausted before Princeton was reached. It had occurred to him that among the Faculty of Princeton College were men worthy of the hightest distinction it was in Harvard's power to grant, and it was not pleasant to think they had been overlooked while degrees were simply scattered among the Faculties of other colleges. Dr. McCosh might have overlooked this apparent forgetfulness on the part of Harvard had not Dr. Holmes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Holmes's Hard Words. | 11/18/1886 | See Source »

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