Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herr Flettner's claim for the practicability of "rotoring" was strengthened by figures he could quote from the log of the Baden-Baden's lately completed pioneer cruise with a cargo of stone from Hamburg to Manhattan via the Canary Islands. She had used but 30% of the fuel oil any other 660-ton ship would have required without rotors. The rotors were at their best lending power auxiliary to the thrust of the motor-driven propeller, and in high winds off Gibraltar that had given the craft full headway when its motors were helpless. Herr Flettner told...
...property, Abner becomes involved in the operations of Railroad Jones. The latter, obese, unlettered but wily beyond compare, plays an elusive role, now angel, now devil, but always a hero for the ingenuity of his countless victories at law and his unrivaled wealth. Possessed of an astonishing "rickollection" and pioneer shrewdness, he harps on the folly of tainting man's natural intelligence with education. He has a daughter, Adelaide, highly modernized by upstate schooling, with whom Abner's fortunes are further involved. The complications pile up alarmingly until, puzzled by Railroad's tactics, acquaintances cremate him alive...
...paper has been honest and upright in its reporting. Always it has been respected by pressmen, which is a sharp criterion. To work on its staff was a pleasure and an education, as realized by such famed personages as George Wilkins Kendall (one of its founders and a Texan pioneer), Lafcadio Hearn, Walt Whitman, Irwin Russell, Page M. Baker, Pearl Rivers (Mrs. Nicholson, mother of Leonard K. Nicholson, President of the Times-Picayune Publishing Co.), Stephen Crane, George W. Cable, Brander Matthews, Henry Rightor, Catherine Cole...
...London British feminists crowded to a banquet in honor of Miss Christabel Pankhurst, pioneer militant suffragist, recently returned from Canada. Excerpts from ensuing speeches...
...however restricted as to time, regardless of the limitation of its area of action. Moreover, Crèvecoeur had a point of view not frequently presented, that of a loyalist to the crown in revolutionary colonies. No reader will close the book, finally, without a truer mental picture of pioneer days in America. Crèvecoeur was not a historian; he was a chronicler of unrelated episodes. He was an observer whose main interest was not in ideas or causes but in people. His writings before the Revolution contain a picture of the life of the average American community...