Word: sails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that we will "have to ferret out insidious propaganda." Surely Mr. Wilson saw these obvious facts as early as 1914. But Mr. Stoddard gets more practical, he says "that we should export arms only f.o.b., so that ships flying our flag would not be involved." Similarly Americans should only sail in American boats, lest they get hurt; otherwise it's their own fault, and the government should forget them. Such naivete is dangerous. When an American or British ship was torpedoed in 1915, and its cargo lest, it meant another order for the Yankees, c.o.d., or f.o.b. It was just...
...expedition to Belgian Congo composed of seven men, conducted by Dr. Richard P. Strong, professor of Tropical Medicine, will sail from New York tomorrow to spend six months studying the control and elimination of onchocerciasis...
...Bosporus off Leander's Tower. Later Stavro Chelebides, agent for the Maiotis, brought out from shore potatoes, macaroni, meat and salad greens for Mr. Insull who had been desperately sick in the Aegean on a diet of boiled chicken. Fresh water was taken aboard so the Maiotis could sail that afternoon...
...great expense that day Columbia Broadcasting System had arranged a short wave connection lo Italy and at the end of the concert, to everyone's amazement, the Maestro rushed up to the microphone and in his croaking voice said: "I send you my best greetings. I will sail in two days and I will see you and embrace you." At the Sunday afternoon broadcasts Critic Lawrence Gilman (New York Herald Tribune) talks about the composers, describes the music. Last week he spoke only of Toscanini. Said he: "When one thinks back over the countless manifestations of Mr. Toscanini...
Charles Johnson was under sail in the days of windjammers. Mostly he shipped as a cook, and in the galley learned how to use a knife on raw meat. When one of the crew broke a leg or tore an arm Cook Johnson and the captain used to patch him up. There was generally a "doctor's book'' on board which gave directions. Two years ago senility and a burned leg drove Charles Johnson to New York City's Home for Dependants on Welfare Island. When they asked him what he could do, he told them...