Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentenced to a year in jail because he: 1) told two undertakers and a minister that his grandmother was dead, made funeral arrangements, borrowed money- to be paid back from the insurance; 2) told Mrs. Emma Appleby that his grandmother and niece were dead on Maryland's Eastern Shore, asked her to pack up and go with him to take charge of double funeral arrangements, swiped her baggage...
Just as when a stone is cast into a calm pool and the ripples spread surely onto every farthest bit of the shore, so the death of Thomas Nelson Perkins shocks his friends at home and is felt in all distant countries touched by his work on Reparations. The public praise heaped upon his career at the bar and in industry and banking cannot hide in his friends' minds the memory of a genial counselor, just as generous in his efforts as sage in his advice, nor can Harvard in particular forget the thirty years Mr. Perkins spent as Fellow...
Back in the 80's a three-masted schooner bound for Boston with a cargo of molasses, coca, and pickled limes struck the south shore of Nantucket, driven by snow squalls and heavy seas. The ship wallowed helplessly in the breakers, and like a consuming disease the surf began pounding the vessel to pieces. Hearing of the disaster, hundreds of citizens hastened to the sands to render aid. But good intentions meant nought, for before their frosted eyes a cold drama was approaching its climax. The crew, clinging to the rigging--which were giant, slim icicles, slowly were freezing...
Vanderbilt then dominated the swift rising New York Central. His chief rival was the Pennsylvania, but both railroads kept to their own backyards until a scandalously promoted third line, the West Shore, began paralleling Vanderbilt's tracks along the west bank of the Hudson to the Port of New York. Angry clear through he decided that if the Central was to suffer from competition close to home, so was the Pennsylvania. Acquiring the "South Penn" charter, Vanderbilt declared a railroad war, sent 300 engineers and thousands of laborers trooping into the rugged, coal-bearing Alleghenies, with orders to build...
...Conor, Andrew J. 18 159 6.2 Ottawa High Ottawa, Ill. Oliver, Bradley C. 18 142 5.9 St. Mark's Pittsburg, Pa. Thomas, Edward C. P. 18 155 5.9 Belmont Hill Cambridge TACKLES Curtis, Charles P. III 18 185 6. Andover Norfolk Eliot, Thomas L. 17 190 6. No. Shore C. D. Winnetka, Ill. Elser, Peter F. D. 17 195 6.1 Kent New York City Healy, William P. Jr. 18 185 6.1 Roxbury Latin Boston Hinckley, Frank L. Jr. 18 185 6.4 St. George's Providence, R.I. Homans, William P. Jr. 16 170 6.3 South Kent Canton Kunan, Richard...