Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brag about your size! Why, we have bigger hogs right here on Long Island! And some of them have more sense...
Shortly after Leys and Plumer graduated, they decided to have a look at the world, and it was then that the idea of racing completely around it originated. The two set out on the same boat from Newport, Rhode Island, each with $87. Shipping as deck boys, they went through the Panama Canal and up the Pacific Coast to Seattle. They took to the water again, journeying on to Alaska, spending Christmas day in Cordova, loading copper in snow-covered sacks...
Harvard States: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, Georgia, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho...
People on the tender, when it was plowing out to the Munargo one day last week, thought that going home had proved too much for one young man. As the tender passed the buoy by the Hog Island lighthouse, the young man whipped off his coat and dove overboard. His wife fainted. Passengers stumbled over suitcases to the rail. Then they saw that the young man, swimming powerfully, was saving a small boy. Tender-Captain Russell's ten-year-old had tumbled off the deck. Charles F. Havemeyer, onetime (class of 1921) Harvard footballer, N. Y. Stock Exchange member...
...rescued from the Titanic disaster by smooth Garrit Rantoul, promoter of the aqueduct. She marries Rantoul instead of grim, underground, somewhat sandhoggish John. John, just promoted, quits engineering and goes on a star-spangled "bust," for three days rampaging the length, width and depth of the island labyrinth he had thought to help reconstruct...