Word: logs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part that it has played in American maritime life and commerce, and giving the reasons for its decline. He will treat at length the procedure of a whaling cruise, giving some discussion of the human side of life at sea, with quotations selected from the most interesting of his log books...
...were so great, that it is only natural that a whaling museum should have grown here. We have added to it constantly so that now it has as fine a collection of things pertaining to whaling as is to be found anywhere in the world. All kinds of paraphernalia, log-books, pictures, and scrimshaw, which was the artistic work of the sailors, in engraving and carving whale ivory, have found their way into the museum. The prize of the collection, however, is a model of a whaling bark, built on half-scale, which is large enough to allow people...
When politicians turn for a moment from investigations and log-rolling activities to less congenial employment the result is usually highly interesting. And when the discussion wanders to the field of literature it is as frequently highly entertaining. The debate on the Rabenold "Clean Book" bill at Albany has proved no exception to the rule. Rabalais, Thomas Paine, and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" have been tossed about in a manner quite disrespectful to "classics." And lost in the maze of pleasant literary reminiscences the heat of debate be dissipated, a sulphurous ring of vituperative phrases has been struck. "This amendment...
...Webster was expelled form Exeter have apparently assumed that the great American public usually demands from its statesmen an intimate knowledge of past and present lore. But that such an analysis is hasty and superficial is proved rather conclusively by the history of presidential elections, in which coonskin cap, log cabin, and campaign song, to say nothing of the cider barrel, have easily overshadowed in importance the sonorous orations of far-sighted politicians...
...desperate forced landing, all hopes of saving the ship or its crew ceased when on the ninth or tenth day from the date of departure the body of the commander, Lieutenant du Plessis de Granadan was found in Sicilian waters by the net of a fisherman. No log among the few papers in his pockets, the failure of any carrier pigeons to return, a gleam of light seen off the coast of Sicily about the time that de Granadan's watch stopped led to the supposition that the disabled airship collapsed and exploded suddenly at her end, carrying 48 brave...