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...clutching, ripping fingers of the polar giants that tried to hold the ship back; but there is no visible proof today of the gales she outrode or the times she struggled under tons of sleet and frozen spray that weighted her rail to the water's edge and nearly sank her. So the visitor who views the "City of New York" today sees only a proud, old, ship, a member of a fast-vanishing generation of square-riggers that curled the sea away from their blunt bows and braved all the storms that nature brought forth...
...gentry. Educated at the College of the City of New York, he was graduated at 18. Then, "when I got to be 20, and had marriage in view, a desire to write serious things overwhelmed me." His first best-seller was The Jungle (1906), whose profits ($30,000) he sank in Socialist Helicon Home Colony at Englewood, N. J. Now he lives in Pasadena, Calif., with his second wife (he was divorced from the first). They have made "some rather startling experiments" in mental telepathy. Sinclair likes to play tennis, requires his secretary to be able to play a "rattling...
...little Chancellor sank back exhausted. Conservatives and Liberals were on their feet waving papers, cheering till the sound reached rainy Parliament Square outside...
Last week rail bonds sank perilously close to their lows for the year in the wake of a liquidation which carried railroad common stock averages below their 1931 lows. On all sides the whisper was heard that savings banks were selling their holdings rather than await an avalanche of selling after the first of the year. This whisper was highly unlikely since many months will elapse before even the weakest of issues will be outlawed by bank examiners. Selling by managers of trust funds was certainly an important factor in the decline, but the deduction from this that savings banks...
...trained newsman but he felt he could do anything anyone else could. So in 1920 he persuaded INS to give him a job in Berlin. Shortly thereafter he made Page One hi almost every U. S. paper by unearthing the log of submarine U-2O which sank the Lusitania...