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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white pall, in a quiet, gelid sea, the Fort Victoria listed further and further to starboard until only seasoned Captain Albert R. Francis, his pilot, and a skeleton crew of twelve vigorous pumpers remained on board. An attempt was made to tow the foundering vessel to shore, but at length the bubbling water closed over it. Captain Francis and Pilot Frank Moran, last to slide down one horizontal side, were hauled by rescuers out of the Fort Victoria's sinking whorl. All the crew and 255 passengers-everyone aboard-had been saved without accident except a fainting spell which...
...show are many wood-panels of nymphs and Nationalistic God-heads. Moses appears in two forms: a bust and a full-length bronze of seething, impassioned aspect. In an era when it is fashionable to divorce art from religion and other such influences, Ivan Mestrovio, bred close to Croatian soil, retains much of the peasants' religious awe; infuses his sculpture with that spirit...
...which every rink is divided by blue lines drawn 60 feet apart and forming a quadrilateral whose centre is also the centre of the rink. A player may not pass from one end of the rink to a teammate at the other. But he may now pass the length of each zone in turn. This rule was supplemented by others penalizing players who loaf, for defensive purposes, in front of their own goal...
...Louis one Sam Lehrer was held up by a Negro thug who, finding no money, clipped off a seven-inch length from Lehrer's beard, departed saying: "I shall sell this...
...novel feature of the new Dartmouth indoor hockey rink, under construction at the present time, is the lettering "Dartmouth College" on the roof, to be a lofty guide for aeroplanes. The letters are to be about 20 feet in height and to extend the whole length of the building...