Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night the Maryland echoed with the scufflings of "shellbacks" capturing and securing "pollywogs" for the next day's rites. Officers as well as gobs were chained in the brig until, at 9 a. m.) the parade began...
...poised and wheeling in the hot blue sky above the Indian Ocean espied, last week, a long, low, incredibly slender ship, darting with splendid speed toward Aden, the Red Sea, Suez. A literate seagull might have spelled out upon the vessel's spume flecked prow the name H. M. S. Enterprise. Aboard and often on the bridge was a young man who is called by his Royal family simply "David." As he paced the bridge, engines of 80,000 horsepower thrust the frail 7,600-ton cruiser across the placid Indian Ocean at automobile speed: 40 m.p.h. Only...
...there are many thousands of fantastic gourmets who put cream on their bananas, who butter their celery, who eat apples with salt. One of the last, Kenneth M. Hall, of Austin, Tex., an undergraduate of Texas University, last week accidentally sprinkled not salt but poisonous crystals on his apple, ate it, died...
Sharp contrasts are William H. Woodin, head of the American Locomotive Co., and Samuel M. Vauclain, head of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. Mr. Woodin has probably the finest collection of American gold pieces in the world, has written authoritatively on numismatics. A collector of rare books, he especially prizes a volume which contains signatures of most of the Popes of Rome. A present hobby is the collection of originals of newspaper cartoons. Mr. Woodin plays little golf; seldom uses his costly yacht. He is a graduate of Columbia (school of mines, 1890) and an Alpha Delta Phi, was Fuel Administrator...