Word: argand
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...Ohio River captain named Gordon C. Greene doubled his packet fleet by building the Argand. His wife, a country storekeeper's daughter who learned to steer a boat on her honeymoon, took out a master's license, got behind the Argand's wheel, started it splashing up & down the Ohio...
Once Ma Greene steered the Argand through a cyclone to safe harbor. Once she quieted her passengers' panic when the swell of her boat exploded 40 quarts of nitroglycerin in a yawl tied to shore, caving in the boat's bulkheads and smashing cabin windows. Another time, with one of her sons in her arms, she barked orders that got her boat safely untangled after it had collided with another in a windstorm...
...minutes after Guy Guileless, '82, might have been seen seated at a table in his room with a number of friends, all using Gaskell's Compendium by the light of a philosophical Argand burner. There is a gentle knock at the door, and the "lady-like" janitoress leaves a freshly washed bundle of linen and departs. Before long Guy's friends leave him and he is alone with the Compendium. With a light heart he prepares to retire, humming softly to himself as he forms plans for the morrow. Ah, better for him had that morrow never dawned! After wrapping...