11) icebreaker. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...icebreaker, ship of special hull design and wide beam, with relatively flat bottom, designed to force its way through ice. When the icebreaker charges into the ice...
12) hydrofoil. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...hydrofoil, flat or curved finlike device, attached by struts to the hull of a watercraft, that lifts the moving watercraft above the water's surface. The term is...
13) catamaran. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...catamaran, (kat´mran´) (KEY) , watercraft made up of two connected hulls or a single hull with two parallel keels. Originally used by the natives of Polynesia, the...
14) Smith, Stevie. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Smith, Stevie, (Margaret Florence Smith), 1902-71, English poet and novelist, b. Hull, Yorkshire. At first unnoticed as a poet, she worked in a London publisher's...
15) Addams, Jane. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Ill., grad. Rockford College, 1881. In 1889, with Ellen Gates Starr, she founded Hull House in Chicago, one of the first social settlements in the United States (see...
16) Perkins, Frances. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Perkins, Frances, 1882-1965, U.S. Secretary of Labor (1933-45), b. Boston. She worked at Hull House, was executive secretary of the New York Consumers' League (1910-12)...
17) hydroplane. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...small, high-powered racing boat designed to skim along the surface of the water. Its hull is so shaped that at high speeds the bow is tilted up out of the water,...
18) Goodman, Benny. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...American clarinetist, composer, and band leader, b. Chicago. Goodman studied clarinet at Hull House. In Chicago he had the opportunity to hear (and eventually to...
19) Lathrop, Julia Clifford. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...and administrator, b. Rockford, Ill., grad. Vassar, 1880. Associated with Jane Addams at Hull House in Chicago, she was active in civic work, aiding in founding (1899)...
20) caravel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...sailing vessel, generally square-rigged with the aftermast lateen-rigged. It had a roundish hull with a high bow and stern. The term "carvel-built" (see boat) was...
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