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...Staten Island on an official tug. At the same time more than 250 invited guests made their way to the shipyard, where they expected to cheer Miss Marsh as she proudly blurted out the name of her illustrious ancestor and splintered the champagne bottle against the grey steel prow...
...prow of the Nahlin is an Indian totem pole base from which sprouts as a figurehead an Indian chief with.flowing headdress, peering ahead. On final orders from the Admiralty, the Nahlin nosed this week into the minute Balkan port of Sibenik, between Zara and Split, there picked up King Edward & Friends...
...motive power he had short oars. A miner's lamp attached to his steel helmet, a searchlight on the boat's prow, an under water lamp hanging overside, all served by electric storage battery, were to supply light for close inspection of the tunnel walls. All electrical connections were shielded against sparking in the presence of sewer gas whose explosive power, Mr. Brown told reporters, was such that 36 cu. ft. of it was equal to one ton of dynamite. Last week Mr. Brown made a preliminary test of his equipment. He put on woolen basketball socks, sneakers...
...last Century, however, Marovo had a Chief of Chiefs named Tatagu who proved to be eminently civilized. Long suspecting that there was nothing in the devil-fear to which the islanders had been addicted, Tatagu led a fishing expedition to sea one day, pointedly neglecting to affix to the prow of his boat a vine or "string" which was supposed to placate the devil, bring a good catch. After three fruitless days the tribesmen were about to rebel, when Tatagu spied a large school of the succulent makasi fish. Returning home in triumph, the Chief of Chiefs learned that...
...head projects a single prodigious horn (see cut). Dr. Dove describes the character of his artificial unicorn thus: "True in spirit as in horn to his prototype, he is conscious of peculiar power. ... He recognizes the power of a single horn which he uses as a prow to pass under fences and barriers in his path, or as a forward thrusting bayonet in his attacks. And, to invert the beatitude, his ability to inherit the earth gives him the virtues of meekness. Consciousness of power makes him docile...