Word: steamboated
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...Wood, speed-boatman, sped along the St. Clair River off Al-gomac, Mich., in his Baby America III. One hand on the wheel, eyes intent on the stopwatch, he ignored a passing steamboat. A swell capsized Baby America 111. Three young women rescued stunned Gar Wood. Said he: "I know now how Sharkey felt when Dempsey...
German-Jews outpeddled the Yankees, who turned storekeepers -Woolworths, Wanamakers. The canal, steamboat and railroad superseded wagoning. Religion grew organized, shutting out all but the most gorgeous spellbinders-Sundays and Sankeys, Moodies and McPhersons. Book peddlers had to learn the mass technique that flowered in Elbert Hubbard, Nelson Doubleday, E. Haldeman-Julius. All that remain of itinerant America are the scurrying hired droves who still "drum" everything from coal dust to white space; the glib "representatives" whose backslaps, hotel snoring and smoking-car anecdotes constitute an unmelodioua ground-buzz in the U. S. chorus...
...most popular questions for wager or debate in the late nineties was, "Can any outfit stop the Pennsylvania 'guards back'?" And the sons of the same pessimistic gentlemen who offered to eat the first steamboat that ever crossed the Atlantic invariably answered, "It can't be done!" In other words, the general verdict was that when an irresistible force met an immovable object, the object stopped being immovable, and that was doubtless a part of Mr. Woodruff's philosophy when he engineered the inception of the smashing drive that no line seemed able to withstand...
...cunning wolf robs fishnets. . . . An Indian tries to sell his frozen baby as dogfood. ... A pickerel attacks a gull. ... A starving fisher outwits a porcupine. . . . An old man enters a shed to feed 18 unchained lynxes. . . . An Indian lad fills his dead father's post piloting the steamboat down a snaggle-bouldered Alaskan river...
...York University invented the "floating college," a college on a globe-circling steamboat. This project has yet to materialize (TIME, June 29). To Princeton University goes credit for the first "rolling course," a college course administered in a continent-touring Pullman car. The car will be specially designed to accommodate 22 professors, instructors and students. It will travel 10,000 miles. The course will be one in geology and mineralogy and the car will leave Princeton July 1 and stop at localities of geological interest for field trips...