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  • n  the cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship
  • n  the act of steering a ship

  • It imagines an affair between free-spirited artist Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) in steerage and Philadelphia blueblood Rose Bukater (Kate Winslet), unhappily engaged to wealthy .
  • Alexander Norman McKay, 21, born and bred in Pontypridd, Wales, able coal miner, sailed into New York harbor in the steerage of the White Star liner Homeric.
  • Sarnoff was born in Uzlian, Russia, in 1891 (the year the electron was christened; he often bragged they were born the same year) and traveled steerage to New York nine years later .
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  • Celtic Fling brings music, games, food and more to Mount Hope Estate
    The heart of Celtic culture can be found this weekend at Mount Hope Estate.Music is at the center of the three-day Celtic Fling, which starts this evening with a triple-header: local favorites the Kilmaine Saints, followed by Seven Nations.Gaelic Storm, forever remembered as the steerage band from "...
    June 20, 2013 - Lancaster Online
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  • Stephen Jay Gould in Contra Costa Times
    Consider a group of frightened men and women who speak no English and who have just endured an oceanic voyage in steerage,Harvard University science historian Stephen Jay Gould wrote of the Goddard study. "Most are poor and have never gone...

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