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...days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able, And on the seventh-holystone the decks and scrape the cable. -Richard Henry Dana Celebrated in song and story of the English-speaking navies and merchant marine is the holystone, a porous slab of sandstone used as an abrasive for keeping wooden decks snow-white.* In the U. S. Navy the holystone has been used since the Government first built ships. Formerly applied by seamen on hands and knees, holystoning is now performed with long-handled implements, mopwise. Nevertheless, there were always corners where the holystone had to be applied...
...either quite nonsensical or so involved that its basic worthlessness is well concealed by complexities which have an air of being profound. There are three sure ways to win at baccarat: 1) deliberate cheating by sleight of hand in drawing a card; 2) marked cards; and 3) a prepared deck introduced by a confederate croupier into the "shoe" from which cards are drawn. Before the War an Italian gang made a big haul at Monte Carlo with a prepared deck and got away. But the confederate croupier was nabbed and served a long, long Monaco jail sentence...
...second semester is held on board the 20,000 ton steamship "Resolute", which the students re-join at Naples. Classes meet daily at sea in special rooms and on deck. During this semester students visit Greece, Palestine, Egypt, French Somaliland in East Africa, India, Ceylon, Prince of Wales Island, Malaya, Siam, the Straits Settlements, Java, Bali, Sulu, the Philippines, Formosa, China, Korea, Japan, the Hawaiian Islands, California, Panama, and Cuba...
...Summary: COACHES MANAGERS FRESHMEN Snider, g. g. Johnson Reintz, pf. p. Eagleton Pickard, pf. c. pf. Holsapple Carman, ld. ld. Rogers DeVivo, 2d. 2d. Althouse, Riggins Robinson, sd. sd. Rabinowitz Lees, Hessev, c. c. Pepahan, Merry Hamlin, Sa. Sa. Sise Marrin 2a. 2a. Lowe, Levan Hamman Deck, la. la. Housen Sayles, 1h 1h Lessig Davidson, Gusfatson c.h. Downes...
...Mistress" Rosalie Abreu (TIME, Nov. 17). She it was who, rich and eccentric, abandoned European society to found a simian kingdom-the Villa Palatino-on the outskirts of Havana. There, with 120 monkeys, she dwelt in seclusion, except for occasional jaunts to Europe, when she would engage an entire deck of a transatlantic liner for herself & I monkeys. Learned contributor to the science of anthropology, in 1929 she offered 300 acres of her estate to Director 0. Emerson Brown of Philadelphia's Zoological Gardens, an ape enthusiast, as an experimental breeding place. The Republic of Cuba doubtless remembered this...