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Page 315
... ships . Since it rested on the bottom of ship channels , it could not be swept up . When a steel ship passed near , it caused a change in the earth's magnetism that set off the mine . But its best feature was that it could be set to let ...
... ships . Since it rested on the bottom of ship channels , it could not be swept up . When a steel ship passed near , it caused a change in the earth's magnetism that set off the mine . But its best feature was that it could be set to let ...
Page 554
... ship to shore , shore to ship , and island to island . Normally , a pigeon will not fly volun- tarily across large expanses of water , and many a pigeon fancier has lost a race because his birds followed the shore line of a lake or bay ...
... ship to shore , shore to ship , and island to island . Normally , a pigeon will not fly volun- tarily across large expanses of water , and many a pigeon fancier has lost a race because his birds followed the shore line of a lake or bay ...
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... ship since Pearl Harbor . For five years she had ridden to mooring lines at Seattle with no steering pressure of salt water against her staunch oak rudder . I had come back now to sail her from Olym- pia , Washington , to Cape Spencer ...
... ship since Pearl Harbor . For five years she had ridden to mooring lines at Seattle with no steering pressure of salt water against her staunch oak rudder . I had come back now to sail her from Olym- pia , Washington , to Cape Spencer ...
Contents
Hunting Folk Songs in the Hebrides By Margaret Shaw Campbell | 249 |
Become a Bakhtiari By Paul Edward Case | 325 |
In Manchuria Now By W Robert Moore | 389 |
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