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...recent years has become a synonym for 'Sailor...
...often futile. In this case, fortunately, the contrary is true. Joseph Conrad had two main occupations in life: he sailed the seas and he wrote books. If he is to be honored with a concrete evidence of popular esteem it should be, certainly, something which will benefit sailors. No one claims that the sailor on shore leave is going to spend all of his time brousing in the Joseph Conrad Memorial Library. Nevertheless the institution will open up vast worlds to those of their number who have never read any of Conrad. Simply because one has chosen the oldest...
...Sharkey, onetime heavyweight contender ; ferocious fighter, ex-sailor...
...cold eddies which dragged him about like a chip. It was the rips and eddies, not the idle shark, that made John Radowich signal to be lifted out, after three hours of strenuous swimming had taken him only six miles. . . . Other aspirants to Mr. Wrigley's money followed Sailor Radowich by boat, including one Bodie Blewett, svelte bobbed beachling, who promised she would enter the marathon if and when held, sharks or no sharks...
...mother ship, the men never showed a, qualm when we passed out of sight of land. . . . I am always pessimistic on a submarine, for that is safest. I do not let even the men become optimistic. The regular rations of Holland gin which our navy gives to every sailor is prohibited by me on the submarine. On a surface ship it is all right. On a surface boat the men may drink gin and get optimistic if they like, but under the water they must be serious and take no chances...