Word: beaufort
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ships; and they are good bombers. The Vickers Wellington can go almost 300 m.p.h., and has ample range to strike at Berlin-3,240 miles. Smaller, just as fast, the Bristol Blenheim (range: 1,125 miles) is one of Great Britain's main standbys. And the mysterious Bristol Beaufort is too fast and too good to be described to the public...
...completely across the Arctic. Roald Amundsen, Norway's hero-explorer, in a three-year trip and with the loss of one of his seven men, traversed the first Northwest Passage*-Baffin Bay, Barrow Straight, along the west coast of North Somerset Island to Cambridge Bay and out to Beaufort Sea and the Pacific. Amundsen's icebound trail, full of shallows, swirling currents and subject to sudden storms has since been followed by only three or four ships...
Badminton, modern version of the ancient game of battledore & shuttlecock, takes its name from the county seat of the Duke of Beaufort. Legend says it started there in 1873 when the guests at a dinner party stuck goose quills in champagne corks, began batting them across the table...
...badminton section last autumn, came of age last week when the national championships made badminton in daily papers jump from the society to the sports pages. Average badminton bat weighs 5 oz. to a tennis racquet's 13½ oz. Birds, still patterned after the Duke of Beaufort's champagne corks, weigh 80 grains. Best birds and bats are imported. Birds are made of fine-grained Spanish cork, covered with French kid, dressed in feathers from Czechoslovakian geese, whose high grease content makes their quills less breakable. Three birds, four bats, tapes, a net, and a place...
...Beaufort is a peaceful town of some 3,000 population on the jagged North Carolina coast. Last year its serious unemployment was relieved by WPA with allotments of funds for a sewing project, building repair projects and a community centre with an auditorium, golf course and tennis court. Biggest problem of Beaufort civic leaders who met last week was to find a project for which WPA funds could be obtained in 1937. After gravely considering their problem they announced that they had agreed on this boondoggle: a bombproof, gas-proof subterranean chamber that will serve as a haven...