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Contemporaneous with the conversion of the "New York," the steamship "Paris" was bought by the government and was renamed "Yale." The "Harvard" and the "Yale" were detailed on many scouting trips together during...
...series of matches at Bermuda during spring vacation, James A. Potter '34, president of the Harvard Rugby Club said yesterday. The Bermuda Athletic Association which extended the invitation has promised all expenses on the island, but the rugger men wishing to go on the trip must pay their steamship fare...
Respected Mr. Hayashi is president of the highly profitable and progressive Tokyowan Kisen Kaisha (Tokyo Bay Steamship Co.) which is proudly building the world's first airflow liner. This streamlined Diesel beauty will speed tourists and prospective suicides from Tokyo 59 miles to the Island of Oshima in 3½ hours. President Hayashi has provided all sorts of conveniences to get passengers from the landing dock up sulphur-belching Mihara-yama (Mount Mihara) to popular Suicide Point on the crater's brim. One may even ride a camel, one of the first three ever imported into Japan...
Threading its way up Manhattan's crowded East River one night last week with 126 passengers aboard, the Colonial Line steamship Lexington (New York-Providence) sighted the freighter Jane Christenson dead ahead, shrilled a warning. Before the Lexington could get out from under the freighter knifed her amidships, nearly broke her in half. While the ship's orchestra played "Somebody Stole My Gal," passengers waded across decks knee-deep in water. Tooting furiously, harbor tugs bustled to the Lexington's side, took off passengers & crew almost before they knew it. The Lexington sank in ten minutes, took...
...matter into radiation and radiation into matter. In 1919 the fact that radiant energy responds to gravitation as matter does was demonstrated by the bending of starlight on passing around the sun. And, according to the theory, not only radiant energy but energy of motion had mass. Thus a steamship or cannon ball weighed infinitesimally more when moving than at rest...