Word: carina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Visiting U.S. yachts sailed away with the major trophies, e.g., the yawl Carina II, owned by Richard Nye of Greenwich, Conn., won the New York Yacht Club Challenge Cup and the Britannia Cup; the sloop Maybee VII, owned by William L. Horton of Los Angeles, won the six-meter class race. Some Cowes oldtimers complained that British yachting's golden days were over. True, all the great sailing dinosaurs like the 100-1 30-ft. transatlantic "J-Boats" of the Liptons and the Sopwiths had been killed by war and taxes...
...Wilmar Dias is one of the many educators who study Harvard methods in preparation for founding new universities. Dias was here in August to bring back ideas for establishing a school in Santa Carina, Brazil...