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Take the Woermann complex by Abalos & Herreros (with Casariego/Guerra) in the Canary Islands -- an amazing tower with a cantilever at the bottom and a tilt at the top.
Building Recognition 2007
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In addition to the English lines there is the Woermann line, equally devoted to cargo, I may almost say even more so, for it is currently reported that Woermann liners will lie off and wait for the stuff to grow.
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From my Woermann road walks I judge it was well twenty-five miles.
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This I will not vouch for, but I know the time allowed to a Woermann captain by his owners between Cameroons and Big Batanga just round the corner is eight days.
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Kunstcharaktere (Frankfort, 1893); Woermann, Geschichte der Kunst
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Woermann, Jansen, and Thormealen, of Hamburg, who acquired land in Togo, a small kingdom to the east of the British Gold Coast, and in the Cameroons, a large tract in the bend of the Gulf of Guinea, extending to Lake Chad, and applied for German imperial protection.
William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913
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In this voyage of the _Woermann_ there were about twenty Englishmen and thirty Germans in the first class, not including women, and children.
In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country John T. McCutcheon 1909
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Then, of course, there were other feats of intellectual and physical prowess in the _Woermann_ competition, such as threading the needle, where you run across the deck, thread a needle held by a woman, and then drag her back to the starting point.
In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country John T. McCutcheon 1909
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Some day, years hence, the proud descendents of these chickens will boast that their ancestors came over on the _Woermann_, just as some people boast about their ancestors on the _Mayflower_.
In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country John T. McCutcheon 1909
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On the _Woermann_, we only hoped that it would not break out while the weather was as hot as it was at that time.
In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country John T. McCutcheon 1909
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