Word: fording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edsel Bryant Ford's new yacht Sialia was launched at Neponset, Mass. Later this winter he may hoist the red-white-&-blue triangles of the Detroit Boat Club* and sail to southern waters...
...Other burgees which Sailorman Ford might break out if he wished: Grosse Pointe (Detroit), New York, Seal Harbor, Bar Harbor yacht clubs...
...Clarence C. Little '10, former president of the University of Maine and of the University of Michigan, will speak tomorrow night at 7.30 o'clock at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston on the subject "In Birth Control a Proper Subject for Public Discussion...
...list of patronesses for the dance, just announced, included Mrs. Matthew Luce, Mrs. A. N. Holcombe, Mrs. W. B. Wood, Mrs. E. T. Putnam, Mrs. David Cheever, Mrs. A. L. Devens, Mrs. J. T. Murray, Mrs. J. D. M. Ford, Mrs. R. DeC. Ward, Mrs. G. L. Batchelder, Dean Bernice V. Brown, and Mrs. Margaret Barrett...
Last week when Elmer Ambrose Sperry Jr., who with his father, Elmer Ambrose Sperry, developed and perfected the stabilizer, brought the Ford to Long Island with three companions, the stabilizer had guided the ship for nearly 60 trial hours. It seemed such a reliable instrument, so useful in relieving the pilot from constant attention to controls, so much more quick and accurate than a sleepy pilot in moving the controls, that Secretary of War Good permitted the War Department to award it one of its rare encomiums: "The auto-matic pilot has arrived...