Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...need a navy in anticipation of war; (a) war is usually unexpected; North American Review, vol. XCVIII, pp. 462-467; (b) time is needed; (1) to build a navy and to train seamen.- Nation, vol. XLI pp. 503 et. seq. (2) to encourage better methods of naval warfare.- North American Review, Jan., 1889, p. 15, quotation; Fortnightly Review, vol. L. pp. 546, et seq.; Forum...
...also found that the expense that would have to be increased in sending down the topmast of vessels would offset the advantage gained by the canal, so the scheme was a bandoned. The plan of a ship railway was declared by engineers impracticable for mechanical reasons and by seamen, on account of the strain imposed on a vessels hull by lifting it out of water. The Panama canal has proved impossible on account of a river near it which cannot be controlled, and the canal by way of lake Nicaragua is left in sole possession of the field...
...Woodbury '89 continued the negative. He thought that a navy is imperatively needed to inspire respect for our flag and representatives abroad; that it is needed as a training school for seamen, as at present we have almost no American seamen...
...second act the curtain rises upon the deck of the pirate ship, with the pirate crew scattered about, engaged in the apparently peaceable occupations of ordinary seamen. This scene is very realistic and most tastefully arranged. The pirate captain arrives with Constance, who is presently followed by her companion, Cherry, who has come aboard to be near her mistress. Dawdle and Rattles come aboard in disguise, bent on rescuing Constance. They have been informed of her capture by Rooney, porter of the Shorn Lamb, who has been a witness of most of the scenes of the preceding act. They join...
...century it suddenly sprang into prominance and continued in the full glory of its career until 1851, when it was abolished by the then president of Harvard College. All the members of the senior class who failed to receive commencement parts formed the society and were considered as able seamen before the mast and were headed by a "Lord High Admiral," or, as he was factiously dubbed, the "Lord High," who was chosen each year by his predecessor in that office, with much naval pomp and circumstance. The newly appointed admiral received his "sailing orders" from the same sourse...