Word: sail
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...system of free registry would not be advantageous.- (a) It will add nothing to our merchant marine.- (1) Why do not Americans now buy foreign vessels and sail them under foreign flags? Hall, 75.- (2) Foreign subsidizing gives an advantage to foreign carriers and there is not sufficient difference in the cost of building ships: No. Am. Rev. vol.: 156, p. 398.- (3) If ships should be built abroad our ship building industry and ship yards would be ruined.- (b) Free registry was proved unsuccessful in the United States.- (1) In 1859 when subsidies were withdrawn our transatlantic lines failed...
...first scientific expedition to set out under the name of Amherst is to start in 1896 for Japan. Professor David P. Todd will head the expedition, which will sail from San Francisco next spring. Several noted scientists will accompany the party. The post of observation will be located at Yezo, one of the largest northern islands of Japan. The trip as planned will cover 17,000 miles...
Professor Munsterberg left Cambridge yesterday and will sail for Europe in a few days. A number of students who have taken his courses this year accompanied him to the Providence station where he took the train for New York...
...Cornell Musical Clubs will sail June 22 for a six weeks' concert tour of England...
...progress of the Cornell crew which is to sail in the Henley races in England this summer is being watched with the greatest interest not only by Cornell men but also by many outsiders interested in rowing who are anxious to see how good a showing an American crew will make in competition with the best of English crews...