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...Lawson's contention is sound, one wonders why the Monitor did not capture the Merrimac, and why the Monitor herself fled to shoal water and to the protection of Fortress Monroe when the Merrimac twice came down the river and offered fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 7, 1926 | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...greeted by a sally of thoroughly putrefied eggs. Pease meal followed, a light shower, and a few handfuls of soot. More voters appeared and the campaign arguments thickened-clouds of eggs, bursting with fabulous stench; here a rich asortment of cod heads raining down; there a herring, another, a shoal of flying herrings long since removed from the sea. Fogs of soot darkened the scene and a blizzard of meal. Scraping fish omelet from their eyes, the partisans closed in ardent wrestling bouts, the object being to keep your opponent from getting to the polling booth-if necessary, to cripple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lord Rector | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

...Mediterranean shoal, Sturly pricked his nose against a crawling globe with reddish spines. The globe chuckled, softly. It was old Echinus, the Sea-Urchin, the malefemale, ancestor of the oceans, in whom are all the joys of love and all human knowledge. Sturly was respectful of his counsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sturly | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

...France, the Government was surprised, bought a number of London newspapers, acquainted themselves with the facts of the conversations that were supposed to be taking place in Paris. After astonishment had worn off, the capital received the conference news frigidly. France would want a large shoal of submarines. They were indispensable to her national security. But a principal agendum of the conference is the limitation of submarines. Hence the French hostility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Conference? | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

...Huge finny forms of phosphorescence (that) ... .........caracole With the sea-horses on some eye-less shoal, Quickening the leafage of a wave-tombed tree." and "weeping stars," mourners with golden pelf";, and to dig the meaning from "Oh, wash her white as flowers are Before she lieth down and die, Oh wash her white...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MONTHLY REVIEW | 2/3/1913 | See Source »

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