Word: ketch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN Jung is not pondering the relation of modern man to his soul, he is apt to be found sailing a small ketch on the Lake of Zurich, or reading an endless chain of violent detective stories, sometimes at the rate of one a day. Though his large, snow-peaked figure is a familiar sight in and around Zurich, very few of his fellow citizens have the slightest idea who he is, and most of them think of him vaguely as a pleasant old man who likes people and dogs. Dr. Jung, in approaching a dog, will pat its head...
Chief medical officer of the Cook Islands which stretch 1,000 miles across the Pacific from Tahiti to New Zealand, Dr. Thomas R. A. Davis will make the voyage in a 40 foot ketch accompanied by his wife two young sons, and a crew member...
...dream, but it was one that never loses its shine: they would sail around the world together in a small boat, and support themselves by writing about their adventures. They put all their money into buying and refitting the Reliance, a tough but rundown old 70-ft. fishing ketch, but they didn't have quite enough and they ran into debt. Before the Reliance was ready to sail, the mortgage holders began to close in. It was then, with the foreclosure notice already nailed to their dream-boat's mast, that the Davisons defied the sheriff...