Word: sail
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Brooke Herford will sail for England the 23d of this month...
...decline in American shipping is not due to lack of free registry. - (a) Foreign registry was not permitted at the time that the American merchant marine was the foremost in the land. - (b) Changes from wood to iron; sail to steam; and changes in machinery are the real causes of this decline. - (c) The civil war enabled Gt. Britain to get a long start over the United States at a critical time. - (d) Wages on Am. ships are higher. - (e) Lack of proper mail subsidies granted by our government...
...University of Pennsylvania crew to send a crew abroad this summer to row the leading English crews. The eights of Oxford, Cambridge, and Christ's College, Dublin, are among those with which races will be arranged. They will go as part of the Manhattan Athletic Club team and will sail on the 7th of July...
Professor G. 'A. Wentworth, who has been professor of Mathematics at Exeter for thirty-three years has been granted a leave of absence and will sail for Europe on June...
Professor Bocher intends to sail from New York for Europe on Saturday of next week. He will go immediately to Holland, The Hague being the first place where he will stop for any length of time...