Word: stokehold
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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This writer after four hours on watch in the hot stokehold has rushed topsides to finish Homer's Iliad. Before he completed it a new box of books was brought aboard and then the fun began. Engineers when they heard that the representative of the American Merchant Marine Library Association was on board ran up the engine room ladders two steps at a time. The reason for this, this writer believes, is that engineers are apt to be more philosophically inclined and have more of the "monastic" spirit...
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