Word: vessels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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James Phinney Baxter '26, President of Williams College and an authority on the ironclad warship, telegraphed Headquarters yesterday that he is "glad to support" the American Patriots for Raising the Monitor campaign. Baxter also backed the plan to make the vessel a national shrine...
...coast-to coast broadcast, Thomas said that the campaign to salvage the historic vessel was a praiseworthy one. The former professor of Oratory at Kent College of Law also recited two stanzas of "Old Ironclad," the poem by Stephen O. Saxe '51 and Andrew E. Norman '51, which first appeared in last Saturday's CRIMSON...
This method is the official U.S. Navy system for salvaging submarines. It consists of sinking pontoons on either side of a sunken vessel, attaching chains under it, and pumping the air from the ship and pontoons. Captain Ellsberg said that the operation was simplified by the fact that the U.S.S. Monitor foundered in a gale, and was presumably undamaged...
...Navy's fondest dreams has always been the "true submarine"-an underwater vessel that never has to surface to charge its batteries, and needs no snorkel-like breathing apparatus. Last week there were some guarded indications that the true sub was out of the dream stage at last. Said Atomic Energy Commissioner Sumner Pike: "In an attempt to get useful power from atomic fission, we are engaged in the design and construction of a power plant for naval submarines. The design of two practical, though expensive, devices for submarine propulsion is practically complete, and one of them is partly...
...stolen, would do to mix the magic in. In The Tempest, for instance, the plot is the tired old story about a nobleman, bilked of his estates, who takes refuge on a distant island, and mild revenge on his enemies when they are shipwrecked there. Yet in this common vessel, Shakespeare stirred a wizard's brew of steaming language and the rich juice of 30 years' experience; the mixture mulled, at the last stir of the action, into a fine philosophical poem...