Word: coralled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coral Gables...
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...while charting the South China Sea, Britain's map-making ship Rifleman found a circle of sandy coral reefs, each about 500 yards by 300 and rising only eight feet above sea level. The British named the islands for an obscure whaling captain-and forgot them. In 1933, French sailors from the surveying ship Astrolabe and the dispatch vessel Alerte, finding a handful of Chinese living happily on the reefs on coconuts, bananas, sweet potatoes and succulent turtles, hoisted a French flag on each island, blew a bugle call, buried bottles containing a French claim to the islands...
...CORAL Gables, Fla.--Sam Snead and Ralph Guldahl, blazing home with a record-smashing blast, today won the International Four-Ball Championship, one of golf's severest tournament tests, and the $2000 top prize...
George W. Rothschild '39, of Chicago; Ernest J. Sargeant '40, of Spokane, Washington; Helmut W. Schumann '41, of Dusseldorf, Germany; Reinhold S. Schumann '41, of Dusseldorf, Germany; Theodore L. Sondak '40, of Gary, Indiana; Philip E. Shick '39, of Van Wert, Ohio; John K. Shinn Jr. '40, of Coral Gables, Florida...