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...freed in pasture, the Whirlwind checked up off Squantum Island, her waterline standing out between her white topsides and the green paint on her mahogany underbody. She is 130 ft. overall, 86 ft. on the water; she has a canoe-like stern, long, overhanging bow, a longer and squarer keel than the other proposed defenders. L. Francis Herreshoff designed her. Her steel frame came from Pennsylvania, her mahogany from South America, her pine deck and spruce mast from Washington, her black walnut trimmings from Indiana...
...Genoa last week Italians laid the keel of their largest ship, the Rex, of 47,000 tons, designed to compare favorably in speed with the 49,746-ton Europa, the 51,655-ton Bremen...
Since its inception in 1867, the Harvard Dental School has maintained an even keel in accordance with the reputation which the other branches have earned for the University. Its handicaps have been far greater. To a large extent, the school is dependent upon its alumni to share the burden of the teaching; receiving a nominal sum of fifty dollars a year, these men contribute their time with an obvious loss to their practice. There are very few full-time instructors. In all Science, research is the dominating factor, and it is in this particular that the Graduate School suffers most...
...commissioned. In ten minutes three flags were broken out, the watch set, the ship's clock started and the galley fires lighted. The Navy Department with one eye cocked on the London conference took this occasion to remark: "Events of recent years have proved only too clearly that a keel laid is not necessarily...
...wheels rotating, one vertically, the other horizontally. A wind-driven electric motor gives them energy. If the airplane tilts up, down or sideways, it in effect moves around the stabilizer. When it does so, it makes electrical contacts which act through electromagnets to return the machine to level keel and original direction, by mechanically activating the ailerons, rudder and elevator, all together or separately...