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Last week, however, news came from Paris that Unamuno had been rescued by Le Quotidien, Paris Radical journal, which had fitted up a ship to go to Fuerteventura. After an adventurous voyage the ship, under command of M. Henri Dumay, directeur of the Progrès Civique, arrived at its destination and effected, under terrible risks, the rescue...
Equipped with these instructions, some 1,200 of the gathering rejoined their wives and children, took ship in New York for Merry England. The great Hegira, led by Charles E. Hughes, was at the cordial invitation of the Bench and Bar of England...
...invention of an improved ship's compass, of the earth-inductor type, was announced by the U. S. Bureau of Standards. It is said to possess many advantages over the usual magnetic type of ship's compass, which not only has to be corrected by sun and stars, but errs with the roll and pitch of the vessel. When, during a test, the ship's compass oscillated two degrees, the new instrument was found to be free from "roll and pitch errors." It also moved freely and without oscillation when a sudden change of course was made...
Another advantage is that the parts affected by the ship's magnetism can be placed where they will be most remote from interference-even up at the masthead. The indicating instrument, which is not affected by magnetism, can then be placed at any convenient point, the two parts being connected by wires...
...settled down to a fortnight of final conditioning. The swimmers went off to swim, gently at first. The runners loped, tentatively. The muscular mastodons perspired. Meanwhile another ocean liner moved out of New York harbor to plow her long furrow eastward over the Atlantic. Appropriately named the Homeric, this ship bore more of America's cohorts to Olympian conflict in the distant land. On her decks lounged the famed Yale crew who, with their slender octoreme, had been rushed aboard still panting from victorious exertions against Harvard on the Thames (TIME, June...