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...Herbert Brooks Walker, A. S. O. A. president, spoke darkly of invoking the Federal coastwise law against the Cunard to block its new scheme. Lacking apparently was any clear-cut ruling as to whether a continuous voyage in and out of the same U. S. port by a foreign vessel was the same as transportation between U. S. ports and therefore a violation...
...actual, original cup is a common silver vessel of poor and crude workmanship. The rim is broken in places, as if fragments had been removed as keepsakes. It is contained in an outer shell, whose workmanship establishes the antiquity of the Chalice and is the basis of the theory that the cup used by Christ and his disciples at the Last Supper was preserved and, perhaps several years after the Supper, fittingly decorated. The outer shell is a sheathing of elaborately sculptured silver, its gilded decorations carved in an openwork known in ancient times as opus interrasile...
...oxygen, reported Dr. Alvan Leroy Barach of Manhattan.* The excess oxygen increases the amount of blood the heart pumps each beat and thus aids the flow of blood through hardened arteries, or it helps maintain circulation when the heart is jolted by a blood clot plugging a blood vessel. The oxygen treatment relieves shortness of breath, lowers pulse rate, improves appetite, aids elimination of body poisons. It does not help tuberculosis of the lungs...
...submarine is a utilitarian thing painted red and grey (for visibility against ice), 175 ft. long. Arched across its deck from stern to bow are two braced beams. They resemble sled runners. They really are runners, to enable the vessel to skid against the under side of polar ice. From the blunt, concrete-reinforced bow projects a long tubular feeler like the solitary tusk of the male narwhal. If under the dark ice the ship strikes an object (whale, rock, island, berg) which its great sub- aqueous searchlights do not disclose, the projecting feeler will ram back against compressed...
...master of the craft outlined six definite purposes of this summer's cruise. The vessel and her gear will be tested out. Practical experience as to the functioning of the scientific equipment under the conditions of the sea will be gained. Tow net work at depths of 1,000 to 2,000 fathoms will be done. Knowledge about the migrations of microscopic plant life and their relation to light intensity will be acquired. Temperature and salinity observations will be made to help the study of water circulation in the North Atlantic. Meteorological observations will be taken to assist in plotting...