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...noon last week some 1,800 passengers, including J. P. Morgan and James W. Gerard, special representative for President Roosevelt, were aboard the regal Queen Mary about to sail from Manhattan to attend the Coronation of the world's greatest surviving King, George VI. At sailing time, however, it looked as if a petty king of U. S. labor were going to have the best of puissant George VI, for the Coronation-bound passengers were aboard ship but their Coronation costumes were dock-bound by a strike of some 300 baggage wallopers called out by President Joseph P. Ryan...
...helped him rig up testing apparatus which demonstrated that the eel's current courses along its body at the rate of 1,000 meters per second, approximately ten times the speed at which impulses travel along the nerves of man. Last January, Physicist Cox & party set sail for Brazil to delve further into the eel's mysteries. Last week's capture was the first news from them, but next fortnight they will start home with their findings. Christopher Coates snorts at the idea of an Eel Light & Power Co., but does believe that study...
Open to both men and women, the European architecture course will open at Harvard June 28; the students will sail from Boston July 3 and return to the United States August 23. The party will examine particularly the development of the "New Architecture" in Europe...
...benighted, garish Coney Island and pity the people who so desperately depend on such a place for their fleeting, unfufilling recreation-Excursion begins to take on a modest significance. Why not, says Obediah's slightly pixillated Brother Jonathan, take this doomed little ship and her doomed company and sail for southern seas? He has a map of a fine Caribbean island he discovered when he was in the China trade. Why not rescue these poor people out of the chains of their industrial civilization, place them in the Eden they vainly seek each Sunday on the Happiness bound...
...year-old Danish training-ship Georg Stage, "last surviving frigate in the world," Sailor-Author Villiers had to pinch himself to prove he was not dreaming when a bystander said it was for sale. In every port from Boston to the South Seas he had hunted for a sailing ship only half as perfect. He bought her on the spot, renamed her the Joseph Conrad, prepared to sail her around the world, to "keep a form of art alive upon an earth which had grown, it thought, beyond the need of it." Applicants for the cadet part of his crew...