This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| 40958 | The master asks,"All ready forward?" |
| 3099 | If, therefore, on leaving our harbors we are certainly to lose them, is it not better as to vessels, cargoes, and seamen, to keep them at home?" |
| 3099 | Were we able to prevent their going in and out, or stop them from taking our trade and our storeships even in sight of our garrisons? |
| 28704 | Sartain,they said,"if you''ll pay us what Uncle Sammy pays for his''n?" |
| 28704 | The only question now is, who are to be the gainers by this revolution in navigation? 28704 ( buy with his own money?) 28704 But whence does this increase arise? 28704 Did you make it? |
| 28704 | Dr. McCosh from Scotland? |
| 28704 | If the other is true, and undoubtedly it is, that he can not build the ships that are needed without the aid of a bounty or a subsidy, what then? |
| 28704 | If, on the contrary, he chooses to repeat his assertion that his ships cost less than those built in Scotland, what inference is naturally drawn? |
| 28704 | In view of this glorious future, how can you, Mr. Roach, oppose the 21st section of this bill? |
| 28704 | Mr. Roach objects to our buying British ships now; will he decline to sell American ships then? |
| 28704 | Now, why can not American shipbuilders compete on equal terms with those of Great Britain? |
| 28704 | Now, why do n''t you do what he did, and give us something to do, instead of spending your money going across in his boats and the Dutchman''s?" |
| 28704 | Say, Jonathan, what are you doin''with that ar jack- knife? |
| 28704 | This is all the privilege that ship owners demand, and with the favoritism over all other mechanics shown to shipbuilders, how can they complain? |
| 28704 | What will England then do? |
| 28704 | Who will avail themselves of it? |
| 28704 | Why need he fear the effect of the clause in favor of ship owners? |
| 28704 | Will he get it? |
| 28704 | Will she grant bounties to her ship- builders, to meet the emergency? |
| 28704 | to? |
| 15648 | ''Ah,''said he,''what can you do? 15648 ''Any other officers?'' |
| 15648 | ''Is Mr. Greely alive?'' 15648 ''What is the ship''s name?'' |
| 15648 | ''Where are they?'' 15648 ''Who all are there left?'' |
| 15648 | ''Who are you?'' 15648 ''Who are you?'' |
| 15648 | ''Who are you?'' 15648 At this moment there was a confused murmur within the tent, and a voice said:''Who''s there?'' |
| 15648 | Colwell crawled in and took him by the hand, saying:''Greely, is this you?'' 15648 The Triton crieth,''Who cometh now from shore?'' |
| 15648 | Think you can climb it? |
| 15648 | What luck, cap''n? |
| 15648 | But why continue the pitiful chronicle? |
| 15648 | But will ever these great liners, these huge masses of steel, guided by electricity and sped by steam, build up anew the race of American sailors? |
| 15648 | But will the American sailor share in the new life of the American ship? |
| 15648 | Could a boat laden with a heavy engine be made of so light a draught as to pass over the shallows of the Ohio? |
| 15648 | Could a boat laden with thousands of pounds of machinery make her way northward against that swift current? |
| 15648 | Could it run the falls at Louisville, or be dragged around them as the flatboats often were? |
| 15648 | For was it not on the Banks and in a fog that the blow was struck which sent"La Bourgogne"to the bottom with more than four hundred souls? |
| 15648 | Only thirty- four saved themselves-- and for what? |
| 15648 | What canal could it be? |
| 15648 | What good will come to the world with its discovery? |
| 15648 | What then? |
| 15648 | What was the natural result? |
| 15648 | What you got there?" |
| 15648 | Whence come you?'' |
| 15648 | Where are the fish?'' |
| 15648 | Who shall say now? |
| 15648 | Would it be seriously asserted that a steamer owned by New Jersey citizens could not land passengers at a New York port? |
| 31953 | Are you torpedoed? |
| 31953 | Have we identity papers for every member of the crew, with photograph duly authenticated? |
| 31953 | Have you had the pain-- long? |
| 31953 | How were things at home? 31953 In event of-- of an accident, is it in orders that the troops allocated[ his word] to that boat shall not go in any other?" |
| 31953 | Is there any-- coughing? |
| 31953 | Operator wishes to know if he can leave the''phones, sir? 31953 Still diggin''wet sand, mate? |
| 31953 | Swim? 31953 The_ Collonia_? |
| 31953 | Think I''m going out in this to hunt my place in the pack? 31953 Whaddya mean-- a Scotch highball? |
| 31953 | What about that now? 31953 What about towing one another out?" |
| 31953 | What else, sir? 31953 What ship? |
| 31953 | What''s the speed? 31953 Whatever can be the matter with them?" |
| 31953 | You mean that a message from a land station to us is being interfered with, deliberately, from somewhere near at hand? |
| 31953 | _ An hour?_The quartermaster, in storm- rig of dripping oilskin, stands sheepish in the doorway. |
| 31953 | _ Ships?_What ships? |
| 31953 | _ Ships?_What ships? |
| 31953 | _ What is the matter? 31953 --Beggin''yer pardon, sir-- I do n''t see th''mate about-- will we put them fenders below_ for ye_ before we close th''hatch?" |
| 31953 | A raider? |
| 31953 | A submarine? |
| 31953 | Anxious eyes turned first in the morning to the list of our sea- casualties; the ships, what of the ships? |
| 31953 | Are ears tuned to the many- tongued whisperings of rivet and shell- plate, that all hands have an inkling of events? |
| 31953 | Are our new standard ships being thus badly named, that the enemy may look upon them as pariahs, unworthy of shell or torpedo? |
| 31953 | Are they all blind? |
| 31953 | Are we getting the men trained quickly? |
| 31953 | Are we rationed in ships''names? |
| 31953 | Are we the prodigals not yet in the mood to turn unto our fathers? |
| 31953 | Are you torpedoed?" |
| 31953 | By what mysterious channel does information get about a ship? |
| 31953 | By what shrewd system are we controlled that no two ships are quite alike in their splendour? |
| 31953 | Can there be anything less martial than the_ War Rambler_,_ War Linnet_,_ War Titmouse_,_ War Gossamer_? |
| 31953 | Crew? |
| 31953 | Dead- reckoning? |
| 31953 | Did not the skipper of the duty patrol hail_ Aquitania_ on her approach to the Clyde booms and advise the captain? |
| 31953 | Do you say the captain of_ Sharpset_ gave you a drink when your work was done?" |
| 31953 | Do you wish to be towed?_"We explain our case, and receive an answer that she will stand by,"_ but use utmost dispatch effect repair_." |
| 31953 | From the upper spars, the signalman calls out a message from an approaching destroyer--"What is the matter? |
| 31953 | Guns? |
| 31953 | High? |
| 31953 | His"Huh"and the swing of his arm said plainly to me,"Takin''th''boys across, eh? |
| 31953 | How can a man keep a watch, you chewin''th''rag? |
| 31953 | How could they stand to the menace that had so shocked our naval forces? |
| 31953 | How is it done? |
| 31953 | How is it done? |
| 31953 | How long? |
| 31953 | How many days out? |
| 31953 | If he leads out and anything_ does_ happen? |
| 31953 | If_ War_ is to be the prefix, why can not our greengrocer find suitable words in the chronicles of strife? |
| 31953 | In time he would be worn to the rut again, but who can say the same rut? |
| 31953 | Is it but another form of camouflage-- like the loving Indian mother abusing her dear children for deception of a malicious listening Djinn? |
| 31953 | Is n''t he at sea, a captain or a chief engineer, or something? |
| 31953 | Is the torpedoed bos''n of the_ Eumaeus_ going to boast of a new post on the_ War Bandbox_? |
| 31953 | Is there a Controller of Marine Nomenclature? |
| 31953 | Is there a voice in the aerials? |
| 31953 | Let''s see-- Mediterranean, was n''t it?" |
| 31953 | Newsboys were shouting aloud the peril of Verdun, and the thought came to us then--"Will that stream of manhood ever march east?" |
| 31953 | Nine and a half?" |
| 31953 | North,--ty- four east? |
| 31953 | Number five? |
| 31953 | Of course, there is our dead- reckoning, but-- but-- wonder where the commodore got his position from? |
| 31953 | On shore? |
| 31953 | Our company? |
| 31953 | Perhaps_ Deutschland_, with his torpedo- tubes refitted and a gun mounted? |
| 31953 | Revolutions per half- knot?" |
| 31953 | Sa-- lubrious?" |
| 31953 | Sea- togs? |
| 31953 | She must be good for more-- new ship, is n''t she?" |
| 31953 | Sixteen?" |
| 31953 | Smell? |
| 31953 | Speed? |
| 31953 | Tarry hands? |
| 31953 | Tattoo marks? |
| 31953 | The chief officer, pausing in his quick work, looks to the bridge inquiringly, as though to ask,"How long?" |
| 31953 | The commander was on the deck, and yelled,''Where is the captain of that ship?'' |
| 31953 | The sea? |
| 31953 | Two revolutions? |
| 31953 | Was she not floating placidly on the same tides that served the German coast? |
| 31953 | We were peaceful merchantmen; what was the use of our dressing up like a parish- rigged man- o''-war? |
| 31953 | Were they trained to arms? |
| 31953 | Were we not master mariners, skilled seamen, able to trim and handle our ships in any state or case? |
| 31953 | Were you in her, captain, when she was strafed? |
| 31953 | What about fog when we are forming up? |
| 31953 | What about the Russians?" |
| 31953 | What are the feelings of the captain of a_ Ruritania_ when he goes to the yards to take over a_ War Whistler_? |
| 31953 | What could she do? |
| 31953 | What is a_ Doppelzentner_? |
| 31953 | What is it to be? |
| 31953 | What of the future? |
| 31953 | What will be the position of the German on the sea when peace returns, let the settlement by catholic conclave be what it may? |
| 31953 | What''s that astern?" |
| 31953 | What? |
| 31953 | Whatever can be behind all this? |
| 31953 | When yo''gwine back hom''t''fight fo''King Gawge?" |
| 31953 | Where are you bound to?'' |
| 31953 | Where bound? |
| 31953 | Where from? |
| 31953 | Where the hell''s_ my_ convoy?''" |
| 31953 | Where was any evidence of our calling by which one could recognize a seaman on shore? |
| 31953 | Where was our uniform? |
| 31953 | Where''s yer uniform? |
| 31953 | Who ever heard of icy sleet in North Atlantic, this time of the year? |
| 31953 | Who knows? |
| 31953 | Who was this to come among us with the airs of a full- blown officer, and yet not a dog- watch at sea? |
| 31953 | Who were the mariners who had to face these deadly perils to keep our sea- lines unbroken? |
| 31953 | Who were the mercantile seamen; of what stock, what generation? |
| 31953 | Why ai n''t ye in uniform, eh? |
| 31953 | Why ca n''t they arrange set posts for eight bells? |
| 31953 | Why ca n''t they steady up a bit? |
| 31953 | Why not let him run the bus for a spell? |
| 31953 | Why not take a relief? |
| 31953 | Why not the_ War Teashop_, the_ War Picture House_, the-- the-- the_ War Lollipop_? |
| 31953 | Why not? |
| 31953 | Why wait? |
| 31953 | Why_ War_? |
| 31953 | Wot th''hell ye gettin''at? |
| 31953 | _ Karlsruhe?_ Nothing has been heard of her for a long term. |
| 31953 | _ Marmion?_ Yes. |
| 31953 | our passengers?" |
| 31953 | t''-one, t''-two, t''-three, t''--_ Hell!_ Did n''t we order seventy? |