Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...twelve-piece brass band will lead the procession to the Brattle square subway station, where the class will entrain for the South Station, on three special cars which will be waiting for them. On reaching the station, the class will parade to the wharf, and will embark on the steamship "New Shoreham." They will reach Downer's Landing, which is near Weymouth, after a ride of an hour and a half down the harbor...
After a parade to the wharf, the Seniors will embark for Old Downer's Landing, near Weymouth, on the steamship "New Shoreham." Upon reaching the Landing, the program of sports will commence. There will be track games, water-sports, and baseball, with prizes for the winners. All men who intend to swim must bring tights, and the ball players should provide their own equipment...
There was something Homeric in the venture of Pilot Hawker and Commander Grieve in their Sopwith machine. Flinging away their landing carriage and deliberately avoiding steamship lanes, they undertook a voyage, as perilous as any since the days of Columbus and Cabot. What a continuous flight of twenty hours must mean is clear to anyone who has spent with the hum of engines throbbing in his ears, even three hours in the air. Our wonder increases when we consider that this longest flight yet attempted was made in a plane with only one engine, little chance of floating if forced...
...addition to this opportunity, there are positions waiting for men at the Texas Steamship Company of Bath, Me., the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company, and the L. H. Shattuck Shipbuilding Company. All of these plants are now engaged in building certain quotas of Wooden ships as a part of the new emergency fleet of the merchant marine...
...Spanish ships in the last few weeks than in the whole previous period of the war, finally forcing out of office a cabinet at Madrid which was doing its best to remain neutral. Germany is picking a quarrel with Denmark for interning the prize crew of a captured Spanish steamship stranded off the Danish coast. Germany seizes the Aland Islands, which formerly belonged to Sweden and which command the northern entrance to the port of Stockholm and the exit from the Gulf of Bothnia, through which the largest part of Sweden's trade finds its outlet. Germany is reaching...