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About half way through the race with their prow just keeping abreast of the University boat's stern, they started to forge ahead. While the Crimson rowers stuck grimly to their task the Tiger shell gradually crept up. Just before the bridge was reached the two prows were even, with Princeton still gaining. Harvard's best efforts were beginning to seem ineffectual against the powerful precision of the Tiger stroke...
Cannon Shots. Famed poet-patriot-playwright Gabriele d'Annunzio mounted to the prow of the desiccated Italian battleship Puglia, which the Fascist Government has had placed upon the lawn of his estate at Lake Garda, Italy. From that vantage point he exulted in the threats which Mussolini had loosed at Rome. Raising his right arm straight before him at an angle of 45 degrees (the Fascist salute), he gave the signal for a salute of 27 guns, which promptly boomed from the cannon of the Puglia... Then he telegraphed "congratulations from the prow of the Puglia" to Mussolini...
...steamer circled the spot repeatedly, then sent a message describing the accident. After about an hour, when no other survivors were found, then the City of Rome, her prow only slightly dented, churned her way from the dark spot of oil upon the waters, on to Boston...
...this ceremony, Mrs. Curtis D. Wilbur will leave her pots and pans* will abandon her clothes line, will travel (presumably in a parlor-car), will provide herself with a champagne-model gingerbeer bottle, will crack it upon the very front and prow of the unfinished hulk...
...trust that a sufficient number of Senators who have not been seduced to political apostasy by the family sap bucket, or gorged into stupefaction by buckwheat cakes and Vermont maple syrup, or lulled to moral insensibility by the melody of waves breaking against the prow of the Mayflower- I trust there are enough left to vote against delivering the Department of Justice into the hands of the Sugar Trust...