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...board the Spanish fishing trawler Estai. When the attempt failed, the Spanish cut their fishing nets and attempted to flee. After a four-hour chase, the Canadian patrol vessel sent a burst of machine-gunfire over the bow of the Estai. The boat was seized and turned toward New-foundland, where the skipper will be charged under Canadian conservation law and the crew flown home...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Of Fish and Politics | 4/8/1995 | See Source »

...chilling winds of New-foundland may howl outside the St. Vincent orphanage, the setting of director John N. Smith's compelling new film "The Boys of St. Vincent," but the territory inside the cloistered stone walls provides no safe haven either. The black-clad priests of St. Vincent slip like sinister, dark shadows through the looming corridors, creating a world of terror for the young boys entrusted to their churchly protection. The orphanage is a realm of the wicked, built not only upon layers of deceitful whispers and abuse of religious power, but also upon the sadistic sexual molestation...

Author: By Tristanne LILAH Walliser, | Title: The Bells Toll for 'Boys of St. Vincent' | 12/15/1994 | See Source »

Prior to dropping the bottles off of New-foundland, some of Fell's students dropped some bottles 20 miles from the Navy Yard in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Second Marine Biology Bottle Recovered Near French Coast | 10/15/1974 | See Source »

...awards honor the memory of Richard G. Ames '34 and Henry R. Ames '38, who gave their lives in an attempt to save their father from the seas off New-foundland during a transatlantic sailing race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors Mark Class Day In Yard This Morning | 6/11/1958 | See Source »

...them across when the ice broke up. They multiplied there so regularly that my original three hundred, though I sold a good number and killed a good number for food, mounted up to fifteen hundred in a few years. The sole cause of failure was the refusal of the New-foundland government of that day to give me the protection that I had to have from poachers, many poor people needing food living all around the little peninsular on which I had them, and irresponsible schooner men in summer being able to land and shoot the deer, from whom...

Author: By W. T. Grenfell m.d., | Title: REINDEER RAISING CAN BE PAYING PROPOSITION | 3/15/1923 | See Source »

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