Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seen whales under just such conditions. On the estate of Col. Green at South Dartmouth, Mass., is moored, perpetually in a concrete basin, the whaling bark Charles W. Morgan, said to be the last of the old New Bedford whalers, her only rival for that distinction having been lost during the filming of Down to the Sea in Ships. The Charles W. Morgan has been, through the interest of Col. Green and others, made into a whaling museum, rigged and outfitted as she was when she was built and made her first voyage in 1849. Aboard her as master...
...harangues of the two leaders took the greater part of a whole day. The next day Field Marshal Simmons, finding that he had turned two pages of his speech together (by accident), brought out the lost page and read it to his eager followers. Then, not to omit any element of a proper epic, Chief of Staff Pat Harrison leapt upon the Democratic parapet and reviled the leaders of the enemy. Said...
Senator King of Utah, formerly on the Naval Affairs Committee and much in touch with Shearer said: "He was plausible. He told me he had once been in the Navy and never had lost his interest in it. He said he had fine connections with certain Naval officers and could furnish me information that would help me in my fight for a stronger Navy.? He told me of several inventions of his, and I replied that I would be glad of any aid he could give, I did not find him to be a Naval expert in any particular...
...primaries and won, but in so doing he called Mr. Volstead an Atheist. Mr. Volstead went to court. His daughter Laura testified that he was "a good Christian man, a good father," and the judge ordered Mr. Kvale removed from the Republican ticket. He ran as an independent and lost to Volstead by only 1,200 votes in the Harding landslide. Two years later Kvale as a Farmer-Laborite opposed Volstead again. In that campaign Mr. Volstead was known as a disinterested Dry, Mr. Kvale as a red-hot Dry. Kvale won, by 14,000 votes. Volstead became legal adviser...
...much to live up to if one considers the record amassed by former Freshman coach E. L. Casey '19, who saw his eleven defeated but once in his three years as mentor and that in the fall of 1926, the first game the Freshmen played with Andover when they lost 6 to 0. But French has already behind him an experience that alone should insure his success, a character that made him known as one of the finest football captains, and the system through which he came to greatest prominnce under Coach Arnold Horween...