Word: fin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...line of New England boatbuilders. John B. (died 1915) blind from boyhood, was a great ship-designer and head of the firm, but it was Captain "Nat" Herreshoff (brother of John) who made the name famous. He invented a cata maran that sailed 21 m.p.h. He also introduced the "fin" keel for racing sloops, now used the world over...
...damaged by a German shell. The Kings said to one another: Pax vobiscum; the Calaisiens exclaimed: Miracle! Now a clockmaker has repaired the mechanism and the two Allies are once more fighting, whereat the Calaisiens say cynically, with an expressive French shrug of the shoulders: C'est la fin de I'alliance...
...several weeks no receiving station in North America was able to pick up messages from Donald Mix, radio operator of the Bowdoin, Dr. Donald B. MacMillan's boat now in the Arctic (TIME, Sept. 10). Fin- ally an amateur operator at Prince Rupert, B. C., 2,200 miles from Greenland, and later the station of the Calgary (Alberta) Herald, caught faint and fragmentary messages in Morse, reporting the Bowdoin frozen solid in the ice floes of Smith Sound, at about 79° latitude, some 706 miles from the Pole. This is the strait separating northwest Greenland from the large group...
...both be counted on the give Hilles and Vauder Pyl a strong brand of opposition. Land has been coming along in great shape lately, and his work in time-trials and races is one of the most encouraging parts of the season up to the present time, Coburn, who fin- ished on Lund's heels last Saturday, is also a possible contender for points...
...remarkably fin portrait by Goya has been lent to the Fogg Art Museum and placed on exhibition in the Gallery. The portrait represents the Toreador Romero and is a striking characterization. It is painted in warm grays, black, white, and violet, with a bright not in the rose colored lining of the sitter's jacket, and is executed with great subtlety and refinement of technique...