Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the Navy's "natural home" is the ocean. Nor was it paradoxical for a railroader like Mr. Loree to assert that, besides another trans-Appalachian railroad line, more inland waterways are needed by the U. S. for national defense as well as for commerce. He wants to see a coastal-lateral canal system from Boston to Norfolk, Va. A link needed to join up present. parts of this system is a 31-mile canal from the Delaware River to the Raritan across New Jersey...
Beam-ends. By dawn Monday the gale was but a whisper, the sun burst through a sky of scudding rain clouds. But passengers on the starboard side, looking out of their windows, could not see the horizon. "It was like looking down a deep well." The deck tilted like a barn roof...
...Laborites and six Independents. The tendency of the Laborites is more toward Mr. Coates than Sir Joseph. Nonetheless the Government's previous majority has been destroyed, the way for dickering lies open, and many who know Sir Joseph's mastery of that art expect to see him again Prime Minister...
...See front cover...
...minds and frayed the nerves of the statesmen who rule Russia from Moscow's thick-walled and tall-towered Kremlin. Perhaps, of these resolute rulers, the most anxious and sick at heart was Michael Son-of-Ivan Kalinin, the President of Russia - for he is himself a peasant (see cover). A good, a simple and a noble man is Michael Ivanovitch Kalinin. Open house is still his rule to all whom he feels are his brother tillers of the soil. A poor peasant or a rich "Fist" despised by Communists can trudge or journey to Moscow and be sure...