Word: baud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese design over 2,000 years old. Black and white after-dinner coffee cups and saucers have also been ordered. Adams House will have a picture of the Yard on its crockery similar to the one now used at Lowell House. Kirkland is having a place with a red baud on the rim and the House seal slightly off the center, while Leverett is to have a design especially adapted from one of the famous Spoke patterns. Winthrop House will have one similar to Eliot House, the design being in green...
Both boats as usual carried every stitch of canvas they had. Often The baud dipped her rail into the wash, but Bluenose, heavier and longer, stood up. Before long Thebaud pulled away. Her sails were better cut and set and she pulled smoothly into the wind; Bluenose's big mainsail was so ungainly that Captain Walters had to swing it by the topping lift; her topsails were shapeless sacks. When Thebaud had won the race, twice round the course with an extra lap up Gloucester harbor, by 15 minutes, Bluenose's sails were rushed to a loft...