Word: vessels
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...laid bare the entire ark, though, thanks to the great discoverer's precaution in putting a board fence around it and in compelling his workmen to dig with their eyes blindfolded, no one except Dr. Schliemann and his wife has yet seen the ark. Of the identity of the vessel discovered by Dr. Schliemann with the original ark there can be no doubt, inasmuch as the name "Ark" is still on her stern in raised gilt letters. There was also found entangled with a ring-bolt on her starboard side, close to her "Plimsoll's mark," a rubber watch coat...
...Phoenicians and Tyrians had free trade. There is no hint that the Greeks or Romans were prevented by any John Roach of their day from purchasing their ships wherever they wished. During the Middle Ages the tariffs were levied on a sliding scale, i. e., the captain of a vessel was obliged to walk the plank. Charles V. was an inventive genius; he invented the slave trade and protective tariff. Protectionists want such a tariff that a man can get over the fence with a bag of wheat but can bring nothing back. England was the first to take...
...vessel has been damaged and another wrecked in the ice off Newfoundland...
With the announcement that unless more boarders are obtained Memorial would be closed, it seemed for a while as if a panic had seized upon those who up to this time have thrown their fortunes with the hall. One thought of the old proverb, that rats forsake a sinking vessel, when on all sides one heard the men express their determination to leave. To such we would give the advice of Horace Greely to the giddy youth about to marry, "Don't." If the hall is once closed, when once we have been compelled to submit to the extortions...
...museum at Brown University has been remodelled and its capacities extended on the inside. Brown proposes to send out a large scientific expedition next June for the purpose of collecting specimens for the museum, and of making scientific observations. A vessel will be chartered and thirty volunteers students, under Prof. Packard's direction, will take part in the expedition. The trip will extend as far as Nova Scotia...