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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...