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Sympathetic friends of Colonel Kook recalled his strange, inspired career. Born in Northern Russia his piety felt the tug of Holy Jerusalem. But stronger was the twinge of local duty, and he reluctantly became Rabbi of Busk, Russia. Some 20 years ago, however, he was appointed Rabbi of Jaffa, and hastened happily to Palestine. Today all Jewry regards Colone1 Kook as a sort of philosopher-saint...
...dwelt on modernization of inland waterways as the best relief from high railroad rates: "By modernization, I mean increasing depths to a point where we can handle 10,000 tons in a line of barges pulled by a tug. This Administration has authorized the systematic undertaking of this modernization. Within a few years we will have completed the deepening of the Ohio up to Pittsburgh, the Missouri up to Kansas City, Omaha and beyond, the Mississippi to St. Paul and Minneapolis, the Illinois to Chicago...
...more than answer his suspense. The prancing Senegalese is a faithful friend to Israel Dubois; seeing that his friend and the officer have bad blood between them, he starts for the Major with his knife, and Israel Dubois, who has drawn gun to shoot his white master, feels the tug of an ancient loyalty and kills his black friend instead...
...told about two wire-haired fox terriers: "Nip developed sea-legs very soon, but Tuck took some time to acclimate himself. By the time the storm was over, however, both had become regular seadogs. Tuck still objected to the slant of the deck, but recovered sufficiently to have a tug of war with the mainsheet. Nip seemed worried because he couldn't find any place to bury bones and none of the works on navigation which we had gave dogs afloat any advice on the subject." She told about one of the encounters of the Elena and the Atlantic...
...proposed South-Polar flight, began to hum. The ship taxied out from the boat-landing of the Jeffrey Yacht Club in East Boston. Further out in the harbor the Friendship made four attempts to leave the water; then one of the crew of four stepped off onto a tug nearby. This time when the plane slid over the misty water the spray faded suddenly under her pontoons and the Friendship climbed up slowly in a curving line into the early morning. A man in a small boat, one of the few witnesses, shouted, "Hey. . . . They're off for England...