Word: hove
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King Fuad of Egypt steamed out in his serene white yacht to meet T. R. H., as their steamer hove in to Alexandria. Even distant observers could discern His Majesty's obsequious nervousness. He is a British puppet and in constant danger of assassination by patriots of his own race. More, he is constantly anxious lest such patriots molest or assassinate British officials in Egypt. Therefore, though precautions to protect the English princes had been tripled and re-tripled, they were entertained principally upon His Majesty's yacht...
Terrific was the indignation of virtually the entire English Press last week, when two British sailors hove into Liverpool and announced that they were recently "imprisoned without trial of any sort for more than ten months" at St. Albans, Vermont...
Twenty-seven days after she sailed from Sandy Hook, New York, Azara, a 113-foot schooner, hove languidly into sight of Santander, Spain, and was towed across the finish line. The winner of the race, Elena, had made the same voyage in 16 days, 21 hours (TIME, Aug. 6). Azara's major trouble was running into calm seas. In one four-day period she moved only 20 miles. But her owners, George J. and Francis E. Baker of Detroit, gallant sportsmen, refused to unseal her engines and use them, even though the fresh water supply was running...
Soon there hove into sight the schooner yacht Elena, to be pronounced winner of the cup offered by King Alfonso for Class A boats. The small boats left New York June 30, followed eight days later by the Class A entries. Elihu Root Jr., and Paul Hammond were in command of the Nina; Owner William B. Bell of Manhattan commanded the Elena...
Died. Leopold Guy Frances Maynard Greville, Sixth Earl of Warwick, 45, hero of three wars, British attache in 1917 to the staff of General Pershing; after a long illness; at his home in Hove, Sussex...