Word: leviathan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just before he sailed for Europe on the Leviathan one day last week, Otto Hermann Kahn, patron of Art, briefly announced the designation of Benjamin Wistar Morris and Joseph Urban as the two architects who will plan the new Metropolitan Opera House. He indicated that he hoped the performances of the architects would be as void of modernism as opera itself...
...Freshman oarsmen will row in the Leviathan for the rest of this week but will then be made up into crews. However, Coach Haines intends to keep these boats as nearly equal as possible and will not pick a first eight until the latter part of this month or the first of April. At that time a first, second and third Freshman boat will be chosen as well as two 150-pound first year eights. Because of the death of coxswains all first year men interested have been asked to report at Weld Boat House today at 2.30 o'clock...
...first year men will be the first on the water when they launch the Leviathan today for its initial cruise of the season, unless a change in weather condition forces revision of plans, it was announced by Coach Haines last night. Coach Brown's men will not appear on the river until a few days later, partly because of the fact that shells are very apt to collide disastrously with floating ice cakes and partly due to the fact that Coach Brown believes much valuable time may yet be spent in the tank...
German Boats. For delivery two years hence, North German Lloyd last week ordered two 46,000-ton boats built. They will enter the Bremen-Manhattan service and make their runs in six days, speed comparable to that of the Leviathan...
Capt. Hartley, S. S. Leviathan: "On the roughest passage of my ship's career, to Cherbourg last week, a white owl took refuge in a funnel on the ship, 1,000 miles from Newfoundland. I shall present it to the Bronx Zoo. The S. S. American Trader the same week picked up a white owl 600 miles at sea, and will adopt it as mascot. The coast of Maine has lately reported large numbers of white owls landing there, evidently driven by starvation from Arctic regions...