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Oldest and youngest of a family of nine seafaring brothers, Capt. Fred Nutter and Capt. Edgar Nutter quarreled as shipmates for 50 years, quarreled for ten years more as inmates in New York's Sailors Snug Harbour. Last week their ceaseless rancor brought them into court...
Half a dozen flat-faced Eskimos and a little group of sad-eyed arctic puffins sat on the bleak rocks of Myggbukta (Mosquito Bay), Greenland, recently while a party of five explorers, snug-buttoned in woolies, tacked the Norwegian flag to an improvised flagstaff. The event seemed of only passing interest to the Eskimos and the puffins, but when news of it broke last week all Scandinavia seethed...
...Wyoming and Arkansas turned to rescue. The Shipping Board tanker Independence Hall was close to the Nautilus. The liner President Roosevelt headed for the trouble. In the rocky sea it took all day long to throw a line between the Nautilus and the Wyoming. By dark the hawser was snug and, as other ships turned to their proper business, the Wyoming began an 850-mi. tow of the Nautilus to Queenstown, Ireland and repairs...
Survivors of the tragedy were taken to a hospital at Lamar. Although snug in their warm beds, many a frightened scream escaped them in the night as the children, fast asleep, dreamed of the terrifying hours in the bleak...
...Einstein, snug last week in his Berlin Tower, was somewhat restless. "[We do] not describe Nature, but merely expectations from Nature," he said. "Whereas the aim of Science is to describe the things themselves, not merely the probability of their happening. . . ." He is confident that there is a cause for every phenomenon; that some day some scientist will be able to explain precisely why Mary started for the theatre, why she turned at the observer's tap, why she did or did not proceed to a particular performance...