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...line a while before the War. But the old temptation has fewer followers nowadays. With steam vessels, the foremost part of seamanship is to keep them headed into a storm. What danger then? Very little, unless the captain be drunk?or unless her driving force go bad, her propeller shaft be broken, her engines stop in their ceaseless grind. In these days of several screws and several turbines, even that danger is minimized. The leviathans may flout the sea until some day?who can tell??the unpredictable, the improbable, may turn itself into a fact...
...dinner of the Pitt trustees and a committee of citizens, he stood and told how a vast symbol would arise in an open place of the city called Frick Acres, a symbol of snowy limestone thrusting skyward for an eighth of a mile. He told how this shaft would be a habitation for the city's students, saying: "The building is to be a cathedral of learning, a great central symbol which makes the heart leap up and understand Pittsburgh. . . . The building and its contents will keep vivid the lives of those who have done good work for Pittsburgh...
...supported Woodrow Wilson strongly, and took the post of National Committeeman again during Wilson's second administration. In connection with horse-racing, he was a member of the Kentucky Racing Commission from 1914 to 1919. In connection with the Confederacy, it was largely through his efforts that a great shaft was erected at Fairview, Kentucky, in memory of Jefferson Davis, whose birthplace it was. In 1923, he was elected Commander-in-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans. Last spring he was reëlected. In his official capacity, he presided last June at the dedication of the shaft at Fairview...
...know what there is down there and we ought to; that's the point. I have been doing preliminary experimentation for eight years and I am certain that such a shaft is a practical engineering project and that the only thing necessary to make it a reality is the money. It might be possible to go deeper than twelve miles...
...would have the shaft 20 ft. in diameter and lined with granite, which experiments have shown would not fall in. The shaft would be sunk to different levels, in the same way that mining shafts are sunk, and it would be necessary, after we got down to a sufficient depth to have the heat pumped out. It is not a commercial project and there is no money to be made out of it by myself or any one else but, from a scientific standpoint, it should be undertaken as something equally as important as polar exploration. The spot where...