Word: preserverance
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It is Mr. Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant, who casts a potential life-preserver. Why not, he asks the convened National Mercantile Marine Association, use our passenger-carrying ships in time of peace as we did in time of war? Give the people--he makes no specific reference to the...
Today the past is behind us and the name of Harvard stands as the symbol of the United youth of the north and south. In the union--a name happy in the significance of what it suggests--we may find the north and the south represented in the bonds of...
Gymnastics, expatriated from Germany in some degree, were well received in France, and there formed an integral part of education. An attempt made by Prof. Volker, a pupil of Jahn, to transplant them into England was not crowned with equal success. In the meantime all official opposition to them ceased...
"The Mystery is rather heavily sparred for a vessel of her size. She was carrying considerable ballast. The sea was running high and the wind was freshening; she began to ship water and fill her cockpit, and before one sea could be bailed out she shipped another. The boys realizing...
Between 10 and 11 o'clock the schooner Alice M. Ridgeway, Captain Snow, from New Bedford, passed between the rock on which he was standing and Gooseberry neck. She was at the nearest point, from a quarter to half a mile away from him. Rupert made all the signals of...