Word: leviathans
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...time of day, Yale students had a way of finding out where salty Professor Herbert L. Seward might be. In his office in Strathcona Hall stood the engine-room telegraphs that had once relayed orders from the bridge of the S.S. Leviathan. If the professor was going to class, he rang up "Full Speed Ahead." "Dead Slow" meant out to lunch; "Full Speed Astern" meant a faculty meeting. At the end of each day the professor signaled "Finished Engines...
...that he chose them for "the salt in their veins"; they in turn called him "the Skipper." The son and grandson of sea captains, Skipper Seward had come to know as much about ships as any man could. He had stood on the deck of the German-built Leviathan on its trial run after World War I, had been called in to advise on the raising of the Normandie. He was special wartime consultant to Navy Secretary Frank Knox, reorganized the curriculum of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy at New London...
Mason said the Society had asked MIT fraternities and foremen at the Eliot Bridge site, and had even tried to borrow the "Leviathan," the Harvard crew's Nile-type practice barge. "We couldn't even get a life-saver," he pined...
Properly timed, thinks Dr. Kreutzer, the singing current would even catch whales, forcing them to swim right up to the maw of a whale ship. When the whales arrived, he suggests, the current could be intensified, stunning them temporarily. Then the whalers or whale inspectors could measure each leviathan, noting its sex and its depth of blubber. Large, fat males could be hauled aboard. The young, the thin and the female could be set free with the crew's apologies...
...many of his lines, it was played by such theatrical greats as David Garrick and Edmund Kean, and applauded by Dr. Samuel Johnson. Even Charles Lamb, who disliked the happy-ending version, conceded that it had a certain stageworthiness when he wrote: "Tate has put his hook in ... this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers ... to draw it about more easily...