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...many skunks hev you ed'tors act'ally ketch'd? Au' all them classy letter-writers a-hollerin' their heads off? How many of 'em are honest-to-goodness skunk hunters? It's one thing to say ya hate skunks--altogether another matter when they's hunt'd. 'Course they do, dadgum it! They don't like it. Truly yours, The Old Minuteman (As reported by Kenneth D. Robertson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A VARMINT IN THE VERNACULAR | 3/17/1954 | See Source »

...exploits and worked instead with teams of scientists in a matter-of-fact litter of colorful instruments. In place of the squat and formidible Bathyscaphe most of the material gathering for the institute is done by the unique Atlantis, a graceful one hundred and forty-two foot steel ketch...

Author: By Michel O. Finkelstein, | Title: Gadgets Aid Woods Hole Scientists In Mapping World's Ocean Currents | 3/12/1954 | See Source »

...Gulf Stream and mapping the bottom of the Atlantic, the Atlantis has made voyages totalling almost a million miles, which when mapped on a chart look, like a huge spiderweb across the ocean with its focus at Woods Hole. Assisted by the Caryn, a ninety-seven foot ketch that goes on the shorter cruises, the boats often spend 250 days each year...

Author: By Michel O. Finkelstein, | Title: Gadgets Aid Woods Hole Scientists In Mapping World's Ocean Currents | 3/12/1954 | See Source »

...line, which runs 24 ships, belongs to Sweden's Broström Lines, one of the world's ten biggest (694,483 tons) shippers. The combine was started in 1865 when 27-year-old Axel Broström borrowed money to buy a wooden trading ketch, Mathilda. Last week Axel's grandson and SAL's board chairman, Tor Erland Broström, stood on the Kungsholm's glassed-in decks and beamed as New York harbor saluted Mathilda's youngest descendant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Mafhilda's Granddaughter | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...craft you please, fill her up with liquor and see-gars; you gets your friends on board and have a good time-and that's a yacht." *Although, this week, on corrected time, the winner in the 32-boat fleet appeared to be the small (39 ft.) ketch Staghound. *Until the 1850s, both British and U.S. racing yachts were typically constructed on a "cod's head and mackerel tail" plan, i.e., full bow, lean, clean afterbody. The America, designed in 1851, reversed the plan with a sharp prow and filled-out afterbody, became the prototype of modern racers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Design for Living | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

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