Word: hull
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scientists wish they knew more about the family life of the whale. So retiring is the creature that none can say surely if he takes a single wife or a seraglio. Englishmen sailed lately from Hull for the South Atlantic to find out, by peering and prying and firing identification tags into whales found together. If polygamous, male whales will be rewarded with protection that their kind may increase and multiply...
Grey moonlight lay on the waters. Plunging through the choppy little waves at twelve knots slipped a submarine, perhaps six feet of her hull above the surface. The Commander, Lieutenant Dobson, strolled across the bridge, thinking perhaps of nothing more weighty than a party a few nights before in New London. Through the speckled gleam of the tiny cluster of ship lights around the conning tower, sparks glowed along the deck, where seamen smoked their customary cigarette before going below...
Among the smaller preliminary meetings, one of the most active was that of the Federation of Settlements, before which Jane Addams, co-founder (1889) and head of Hull House (Chicago), arose to protest against loose public thinking. The American people "are in a panic," said she. They identify everything connected with "social work" with "Socialism," or more often with Bolshevism. She cited the case of a distinguished member of Congress who "had it on very good authority" that the proposed Child Labor Amendment to the U. S. constitution had been written by the late Dictator Lenin in Moscow...
...Loves and New. E. M. Hull, who wrote The Sheik is responsible for the narrative genesis of this gaudy chapter. It is about English people in the sand countries and ends up with an elephant stepping on the wicked Lord's head. Lewis Stone and Katherine MacDonald are the protagonists...
...Jones '26, Charles Jenney '26; pole vault, L. O. Combs '26, F. B. Clark '28, B. G. Burbank '28, R. R. Impaik '28, R. B. Hocking '28; weight events, C. A. Pratt '28, M. A. Cheek '26, W. P. Locke '27, F. W. Dorman '26, T. R. Hull '26, P. E. Berglund '26, Edmund Burke '26, C. H. Bradford...