Word: shipwright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take to a pipe. Finding the women of Russia cooped Asiatically in harems, Peter dragged them out with a ukase. Fancying a lowly laundress whom soldiers called Katinka, he made her the Tsarina Catherine I. He decreed a new calendar. With knowledge won by toiling incognito as a shipwright in Holland he built Russia's first effective navy. On land he defeated Charles XII of Sweden, most potent warrior of the age, at blood-drenched Pultava. But Peter I was a moody, discontented man. "Whose son am I?" he roared one day from the Throne. "Yours, Tihon Streshnief ? Speak...
...strangest hulks shipwright ever fashioned stood in the Camden, N. J., ways: It was about to be loosed into the water.* Lest it should race across the estuary and smash into Philadelphia, a gigantic cable was stretched across the water off the New Jersey shore. Twenty airplanes careened lazily from side to side, high in air above the hulk, as if welcoming a foster-mother...