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With 319 passengers aboard, the S. S. Andalucia Star limped into Falmouth, rudderless. In the Bristol Channel, the Radyr went down with all hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Atlantic Cataclysm | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...sought to shame the college into assuming a definite religious conviction, but no amount of ecclesiastical bullying has had any effect. Great preachers have been received extremely well, not for the dogmas that they represent, but for the power of their separate personalities. Still Harvard has drifted along apparently rudderless through the soas of Christianity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECTARIAN CHAINS | 4/15/1925 | See Source »

...election day little more than a month off and their competitors of rival political faith marshaled by men of campaign experience, prepared to strain every nerve in the coming contest, they find themselves without a constitution. Clubs, and political clubs of all others, without constitutions may fairly be considered rudderless, and reorganization seems the only remedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CHANCE FOR REPUBLICANS. | 10/3/1908 | See Source »

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